Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adapter adapter is not working.

Anonymous
2012-11-11T06:19:45+00:00

I have Acer V3-571 laptop.

I upgraded to windows 8 from windows 7.

Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adapter adapter is showing working fine in the device manager ,but wifi is not working.

when I checked the on off soft switch in the Pc setting ,the swith found in disable position.Could anybody assist to solve it?

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Anonymous
2012-12-13T15:59:03+00:00

Well I resolved it by bypassing the wireless adapter and buying a nano external wireless usb thing, it works perfectly now. problem still not fixed however.

I found a way to fix my Network, ive manually uninstalled the Network cards Drivers and downloaded the following file "win78-10.0.0.75-whql" from

http://www.atheros.cz/atheros-wireless-download.php?chipset=81&system=6

and simply installed the driver via the Device Manager

Hope this will help some of you.

Regards,

Pieter Cachet

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-11T16:04:42+00:00

    I have an ACER V3 771G with a Wlan Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 Network Adapter and also the Problem that the connection stops every 3 to 10 minutes.

    The version Atheros 10.0.0.217 does not help. I just installed the (for me brand new) version Atheros 10.0.0.221 from the following page:

    http://www.atheros.cz/atheros-wireless-drivers.php

    1. I downloaded AR5BWB222 for Windows 8 64 bit.
    2. You get a zip dataset win8-10.0.0.221-whql.
    3. Unzip this dataset to a folder
    4. Start the device manager
    5. Select network adapter
    6. Select Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adapter
    7. select properties
    8. select driver
    9. select driver update
    10. define "search from your computer" and select the folder you specified in 3)
    11. the driver will be updatet

    I'm working now for two hours and have no problems.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-12T16:26:39+00:00

    Thanks. I just found that setting. It makes sense. Hopefully, that will work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-12T21:12:19+00:00

    I worked now for one day and I had no problems. It looks like the bug had been fixed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-02-04T06:47:36+00:00

    Wish I had read this first before upgradeing to Windows 8 , I am now desprately trying to find the drivers for qualcomm atheros ar5bwb222 wireless network adapter windows 8 driver as the upgrade corrupted mine. Sitting on home PC trying to get it so I can fix work Laptop and actually get some work done.

    I note no Microsoft Help to anyone here.........

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