ASUS PCE-N15

Wireless-N300 PCI Express Adapter

Product page

"1244-00000775-50Z_ES" (or something) is silkscreened on the board in the FCC photos.
 * OEM: Edimax EW-7622PIn

Linux driver
The PCIe wireless card bases on the Realtek RTL8188CE (1x1x1 ?) chipset.
 * Linux Hardware Guide
 * This chipset is supported by the Linux kernel since version 2.6.38-2
 * and recognized by the kernel in the following way:

lspci 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) [10ec:8178] Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:84b6] The PCE-N15 is controlled by the kernel module rtl8192ce
 * This drivers is loaded automatically by the kernel:

rtl8192ce 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 rtl8192ce 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc' rtlwifi: wireless switch is on Furthermore, Realtek provides the kernel module for download at their homepage.
 * To compile this driver under Ubuntu the following packages have
 * to be installed first: linux-headers-generic and build-essential.
 * Afterwards, the driver can be unpacked and compiled:

sudo su make clean make make install Unfortunately, the quality of the Linux driver seems to be low and several Linux user experience
 * disconnctions and other problems with the WiFi card or the RTL8188CE chipset.

As a remedy it is suggested to deactivate the hardware encryption of the card.
 * In this case, the module has to be loaded by the kernel with additional
 * options, which can be given in the file /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192ce.conf:

/etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192ce.conf options rtl8192ce ips=0 fwlps=0 swenc=1