Atheros Communications, Incorporated
5480 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
t: 408/773-5200
f: 408/773-9940
www.atheros.com
Bluetooth Adapter Installation and Operation
Getting Started
This chapter describes how to install, uninstall, launch, and use the Bluetooth Suite. The
following major topics are covered in this chapter:
”Installing the Bluetooth Suite”
”Launching the Bluetooth Suite”
”Introduction to the Bluetooth Suite”
“Uninstalling the Bluetooth Suite”
Installing the Bluetooth Suite
You either received a password from Atheros to download the Bluetooth Suite software from the
Atheros web site or received the Bluetooth Suite on a CD.
NOTE:
If you are installing Bluetooth Suite on a machine that already has an existing Bluetooth
Suite, you need not uninstall it because Bluetooth Suite supports the upgrade feature. If you
need to uninstall Bluetooth Suite, refer to
“Uninstalling the Bluetooth Suite”
on
page 2-10
on how
to uninstall Bluetooth Suite.
Software installation is a three-step process and it is important to perform these steps before you
can use the Bluetooth Suite:
1.
Installing the Bluetooth Suite
2.
Installing the radio (profile) drivers
3.
Updating the drivers
All these steps are explained in the installation process.
Downloading the Bluetooth Suite
1.
Go to the Atheros Support web site:
https://support.atheros.com/
2.
Login to the web site using your user name and password provided
by Atheros Support.
3.
Go to the
AR3011 Software Package & Documentation
tab of the Atheros web
site.
4.
Download the appropriate Bluetooth Suite release, extract the
files, and save them on your system.
6.
Install the Bluetooth Suite by double-clicking on the Bluetooth
Suite
setup.exe
file.
7.
