Asus AC68 No Driver Support?

[pixEd]

Managed to finally get dual boot working and am excited to move into linux which I've wanted to do for a while. But my PCI-E network card a Asus AC68 has no drivers available for Linux. Am I doombed to have no internet access at all unless I buy a new card? I also can't connect my computer via ethernet as my computer is across the house so I can't go wired... could anyone help please? Thanks!
Running dual boot Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon and Windows 10 both 64bit.

EDIT: Using a very old ancient network dongle I'm able to get online but I'm limited to very slow speeds and unable to use my network card :/ Is there anything I can do?

[sleeper12]

Maybe you can get a better temporary connection with your cell phone:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... ernet.html

Then, try this one line at a time:

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sudo apt install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git
cd rtl8812au
sudo make dkms_install 

Reboot

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But my PCI-E network card a Asus AC68 has no drivers available for Linux.

Please provide the output of inxi -Nx so we get an idea of how Mint is viewing the hardware.

The information I found concerning this network card indicates people were able to get it to work, but the information I found was from Ubuntu 16.04 and 2015. I do not know if there is better support now.

Are there any drivers showing in Driver Manager for your card (since what I found indicates it is Broadcom based)?

Links to the old information I found:
ASUS PCE-AC68 Wireless Lan Adapter (Mint)
[SOLVED] ASUS PCE-AC68 (Wireless card) (on slackware)
Asus USB-AC68 [0b05:1817] drivers? (Ubuntu)

[pixEd]

I'm currently trying the method sleeper posted, heres the info btw:

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Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network 
  Adapter 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A bus ID: 21:00.0 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 22:00.0 
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter 
  type: USB driver: rtl8187 bus ID: 1-4:14 

Wifi keeps cutting out every 3-5 minutes with this dongle, This is what's in driver manager:

[sleeper12]

My mistake, I thought you were trying to get a usb adapter going. Try this for the internal adapter:

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 sudo modprobe -rv bcma wl 

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 sudo modprobe -v wl 

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Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac

What I did to optimize my wireless was to run a search on the networking forum for the specific card. In this case BCM4360.

I found this post although that person mentioned they had a Macbook Air.

This person just readjusted the antenna [SOLVED] Broadcom BCM4360 on Linuxmint 20 not working properly.

This thread broadcom wifi drivers wont install has some tips and things to check.

[pixEd]

My mistake, I thought you were trying to get a usb adapter going. Try this for the internal adapter:

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 sudo modprobe -rv bcma wl 

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 sudo modprobe -v wl 

By internal do you mean the motherboards wifi? It hasn't got a built in one sadly sorry should've said that. Really hoping I can use this adaptor on mint to it's proper speeds and with no connection drops all the time. Will have try everything you guys have posted thank you will reply if nothing unfortunately works

[sleeper12]

My mistake, I thought you were trying to get a usb adapter going. Try this for the internal adapter:

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 sudo modprobe -rv bcma wl 

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 sudo modprobe -v wl 

By internal do you mean the motherboards wifi? It hasn't got a built in one sadly sorry should've said that. Really hoping I can use this adaptor on mint to it's proper speeds and with no connection drops all the time. Will have try everything you guys have posted thank you will reply if nothing unfortunately works

Try those 2 commands for the Broadcom adapter. I think you may need to use the wl driver.

[pixEd]

Thank you all so much! Tried all commands but I think it was

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 sudo modprobe -rv bcma wl 
  sudo modprobe -v wl 

That did it, before one of the comands made multiple instances of my wifi point show up. And wouldnt work with my AC68. Now everything works great, curious though as a windows user for my entire life what's do these commands do? I understand that they get drivers and are changing things but it's so alien as to where these drivers are for me as it's not even a wget command lol apologizes for my noobess. I understand

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sudo apt install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au.git
cd rtl8812au
sudo make dkms_install 

Download off get hub, changes directory and makes and installs it which hopefully won't stay onto my linux as having multiple drivers would seem risky to me in terms of making a system slow and to much going on?

[sleeper12]

This should remove that wrong unwanted driver:

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 sudo make dkms_remove