ASUS PCE-AC68

abgn+ac (AC1900)
11ac Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 PCI-E Adapter Dual Band 3x3 802.11ac PCI-E Adapter
Homepage	Product page
WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru	ASUS PCE-AC68
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	ASUS PCE-AC68
Interface	PCIe
Connector	PCIe
Form factor	single-lane
ID:14e4:43a0 (15 addl. devices) Windows: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_43A0
FCCID	MSQ-PCEAC68
ICID	3568A-PCEAC68
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4360
OUI: none specified
Antenna Connection	RP-SMA
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standards	IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
802.11ac	up to 1300 Mbps
N-QAM	up to 600 Mbps
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
Operating Frequency	2.4 or 5 GHz
Other
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Arcadyan
Probable Linux driver should work with Broadcom's latest wl driver 6.30.223.126 is now available on Broadcom's site 6.30.223.30 is available in... Alberto Milone's Broadcom testing PPA or the broadcom-wl packages (w/ dkms or w/ no dkms) in the Arch AUR PCI ID not yet observed in any mainline kernel / this list (note: outdated) (see also passys)
Windows driver these might work, maybe Broadcom BCM43XX Driver Win7/8/10
Retail
Availability	common
FCC approval date	11 September 2013
UPC	886227557790 (UPC DB, On eBay)
ASIN	B00F42V83C
Country of manuf	China

For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.

For a list of all currently documented ASUS device with specifications, see ASUS.

• 1300 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.),

• 600 Mbps - 3SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan., 256-QAM) = AC1900 class

Overview

This device is using a Broadcom BCM4360 (PCIe, 3x3 802.11b/g/n/ac)

for maximum PHY rates of 1.3Gbps on the 5GHz band (11ac) and

600Mbps on the 2.4GHz band (11n w/ QAM256 [TurboQAM]).

It would appear (from the photos provided to the FCC and those provided

directly from ASUS) that this device is identical to the ASUS PCE-AC66.

See also ASUS PCE-AC88 AC3100 (PCIe, 4x4 802.11b/g/n/ac)..

• In order to reach 600Mbps/2.4 GHz, RT-AC68U must connect

to the ASUS PCE-AC66/68 or RT-AC68U in media bridge mode.

Per ASUS's drivers, the PCI ID for the device is 14e4:43a0..

which seems to be the default 4360 ID.

BCM4360_D11AC_ID	0x43a0    /* 4360 802.11ac dualband */
BCM4360_D11AC2G_ID	0x43a1    /* 4360 802.11ac 2.4G device */
BCM4360_D11AC5G_ID	0x43a2    /* 4360 802.11ac 5G device */

Links of Interest

Reviews

• On OpenITforum

Linux driver

• Linux Hardware Guide

The Asus PCE-AC68 is a PCI-Express card which bases on the BCM4360 chipset.

The card has the PCI ID 14e4:43a0

lspci -nn

82:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:43a0] (rev 02)

and is compatible with Linux since at least Ubuntu 12.04.

The kernel module bcmwl since version 6.30.223.141 can be used as a driver for the PCE-AC68.

The driver can be compiled from its sources provided at the Broadcom Homepage

or from Launchpad. The driver downloaded from launchpad needs to be installed by:

dpkg -i Downloads/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

Under Ubuntu 13.04 the driver can also be installed via the package bcmwl-kernel-source:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

The installed version of the driver can be read out by:

sudo dpkg -s bcmwl-kernel-source
>> Version: 6.30.223.30+bdcom-0ubuntu3

Loading of the driver is carried out by:

sudo modprobe wl