ASUS PCE-AC68

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abgn+ac (AC1900)
11ac Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 PCI-E Adapter
Dual Band 3x3 802.11ac PCI-E Adapter
ASUS PCE-AC68.jpg
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Platform
BrandModelRev
ASUS PCE-AC68
Interface
PCIe
Connector
PCIe
Form factor
single-lane
ID:14e4:43a0 (15 addl. devices)
Windows: PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_43A0
FCCID
ICID
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

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this list (note: outdated)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)
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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

Linux driver

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