I'm not sure this is the correct forum to be asking this but since  
this is the place with the most knowledgable people in this area I  
feel that any information/instructions I receive will be correct  
since you have not steered me wrong with any previous information.

I have an opportunity to obtain 50 802.11a/b/g Atheros cards for  
$250.00 (outstanding price) plus shipping and this is appealing  
however there is an issue with the cards that needs to be resolved in  
order for the cards to be useable.

output of lspci -nnv
04:00.0 Unknown controller [0330]: Atheros Communications, Inc.  
AR5212 802.11abg NIC [168c:0013] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Atheros Communications, Inc. Device [168c:2027]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
	Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

As you can see the controller is of type 0330 since they were  
modified with some kind of application so that the cards would be  
managed by special software on the 5ghz band for a specific purpose  
and the utility does not reverse the process and is not available to  
reverse engineer.

I received a sample card and it appears that all most OS's don't like  
the controller type, windows says it's an invalid controller and  
Ubuntu recognizes the card but refuses to use it as a wireless  
adapter so I'm wondering how to change the ID back to 0280 with as  
little fuss and muss as possible.

Solutions, suggestions and recommendations welcomed.

Also it was my understanding that the Product ID was changed from 1C  
to 13 but I am unable to confirm this at this time so I thought I'd  
start with fixing the device type and going from there.

-- Dale

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