Atheros Wifi Driver needed for Aspire 5100 running Win7 - 64

TheAncient

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone could point me to a place where I can download a driver for an

Acer Aspire 5100 laptop which runs an Atheros 5005G network card under Windows 7 – 64bit.

I did not find any 64 bit drivers - or Windows 7 drivers for this machine on Acer's website.

I tried loading a driver (win7-v10.0.0.285-whql.zip) downloaded from an unofficial Czechoslovakian site

but this driver did not work.

I emailed Qualcomm (Atheros) at 'qca.info@qca.qualcomm.com' to ask where I could find support for this WiFi card

but I never received an answer from them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

TheAncient

Driver did not install properly (and thus showed a yellow exclamation mark and, of course, did not work)

I have since restored my machine to an earlier date: The latest backup with a working driver I had, was from May this year.

The driver used at that time (and still/again working fine) was version 8.0.0.238 dated 05/10/2009

Google will give several results if you search for "Atheros 8.0.0.238 Driver" (of course, since before I restored my machine I did not know which driver version would work, I could not look for it) Most of the top Google results state that the driver is for Win7 32/64 which is apparently quite difficult to find unless you know the "magic word" to search for.