Windows Vista Atheros 64 bit drivers?

Does anyone know where I can acquire 64 bit drivers for Atheros Communication Corp. AR 5B91 Wireless Network Adapter and AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller?

Had Vista 32 bit Home Basic OEM installed on Acer Aspire 6530 Notebook (had 3Gb DDR2 Ram increased to 4Gb) and just officially installed full version DVD of Vista 64 bit Ultimate. THought I had correct Atheros drivers but not so. Cannot access internet (using old laptop on Windows XP Pro) so cannot do automatic driver uploads or analysis.

May have to uninstall 64 bit Vista and roll back to Vista 32 bit. Wasted a lot of time on this after lots of research any may ending up wasting $300+ for Vista 64 bit Ultimate that I cannot use

 

Have you tried the Acer website? http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_6530.html

 

Hi DriverHelp...

I did a bit of "Googling" using "Acer Aspire 6530 Notebook Wireless Vista drivers" for my search criteria and came up with the following sites...
- http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/11/acer-aspire-6530-6530g-windows-xp-and.html
About 3/4 the way down you will find "Acer Aspire 6530 Windows Vista Drivers: ". I downloaded the "Wireless_Atheros_AR5B91_v7.6.0.164.zip" file and scanned for virus...came up clean. According to the "Notes.txt" file in the zip file it says "VISTA x32/x64 WHQL driver v7.6.0.164. "

The site also also has the "Lan_Atheros _AR8121_v1.0.0.35.zip" file and it also came up clean.

 

will check later

thanks both - will check in few hours

 

Success>Downloads of Atheros drivers from Acer Euro FTP site

thanks to both posters>dobhar & bursley.

Am updating Vista 64 bit (full version not upgrade as reinstalled 64 deleting Vista 32 bi Home Basic OEM) now. Interestingly looks like I bought an Acer Aspire notebook initially for Europe market as that was where all tech support data resides. No recovery disks available in US yet (even after 3-4 weeks from purchase) and little tech data .... has to wait on phone long time to get to Tier 2 tech support (after 20 minutes with Tier 1) ... and even then the fellow indicated this (your suggestions) were best way to proceed.

Side note: as updating Vista 64 Ultimate noticed that Atheros has released new 64 bit drivers - one yesterday and other few weeks back for these Atheros components.

What a lot of work but now have capable Acer notebook positioned technically for 64 bit transition that may finally take hold this year and in years to come.

thanks again & Happy New Year

 

Glad it all worked out for you...thanks for posting back...