Qualcomm atheros ar5007 driver vista drivers#

I'm reluctant to hand the laptop back to the user because I don't trust this apparent fix and really have no idea what's going on. The Atheros started working and it's been fine for the last hour, doing yet more Windows updating. I disabled all the network adapters except the Atheros, in the hope that this would free up some resources. In the Network Adapters section of Device Manager there were about 10 devices, mostly WAN miniport something or other, plus a Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller. Sometimes I could not get them to function without a restart. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Later Servicing Drivers, Windows 10 S Version 1709 and Later Servicing. Also, the USB sockets became very erratic at autosensing things plugged into them. Windows 10 Creators Update and Later Servicing Drivers, Windows 10 S and Later Servicing Drivers. After 5 minutes it reverted to the state it was in before, i.e. Nothing changed.Īt some point I removed the wifi dongle and the Atheros started working normally. The user has the same driver version, so I installed the two other versions recommended in the thread.

Qualcomm atheros ar5007 driver vista drivers#

There are no W10 drivers there, but I was able to check that the BIOS is up to date. I looked for the manufacturer's drivers, which are on a site provided by Dynabook.

The laptop has only 1 GB RAM, so everything is terribly slow. The dongle kept disconnecting from my wifi for no apparent reason, but I eventually finished the updating. Code 12.' The laptop has a wifi switch on the front - this was switched on. Some of them said 'This device cannot find enough resources that it can use. There were about 10 other yellow flags in Device Manager. Device Manager said the Atheros wifi adapter 'cannot start. It was dog slow and the user reported BSODs so I just formatted the disk and installed W10. The laptop was shipped with 32 bit Vista. I'm fixing an ancient Toshiba Equium P200-178 for someone who's lost his job because of the virus. It would be great if you can solve this for me. Hi, everyone, this is my first post here.