Belkin → Atheros driver for Belkin N1 Wireless cards

I had some crashing issues with Windows Vista (32bit) telling me that athr.sys was the culprit. Since this is the driver for my Belkin N1 Wireless Desktop Card (F5D8001), I thought I'd do some research.

I found the chip is made by Atheros, and found some updated drivers that work for both Windows XP and Vista.

Windows XP 32Bit
»www.atheros.cz/download. ··· system=1

Windows Vista 32/64bit
»www.atheros.cz/download. ··· system=4

I haven't crashed yet, but everything appears to be working just fine.

The drivers should also work for other cards that use any of the Atheros 5000 series chips, some of the more popular ones like:
Netgear Rangemax
D-Link RangeBooster
Some Linksys.

Do some research before installing, all of the supported cards are listed at the end of the file netathr.inf

Good luck

I tried to install the one for the 32 bit and it didnt work... is there a certain way to install it or am i missin something?

i have the F5d8001 also but i cant find drivers anywhere. PLEASE HELP

Still having trouble myself. dev11, do you have version 1 or 2 of this card and how did you determine the chipset?

I have version one of the card.

What you may want to try:

1) Install the Belkin driver
2) Open up Control Panel, Network Connections, Right click on the Belkin N1 Desktop card and click DISABLE
3) Extract the Atheros driver file ar5416.sys into your \Windows\System32\Drivers\ folder. If asked to overwrite, select YES.
4) Enable the N1 Desktop Card.
5) Reboot

Since the Belkin driver package uses the same driver file as the Atheros driver, it works great.

I also have version 1. Thanks for the help, but no go so far. I'm running Vista. Is the ar5416.sys for XP? I could only find this file in the XP driver files. I tried it, but I don't think my system is using this file.

Anyway, I tried the same thing using the athr.sys file from the Vista drivers, but had no improvment. I can connect briefly, but get a complete lock up after a couple of seconds (sometimes not even that).