Synology compatible USB 2.5Gbit Ethernet adapter

Last updated on 09 Jan 2023 📧 Subscribe
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1 How to install
1.1 Preparation
1.2 Installation DSM 6
2 How to configure

I’ve went witn the Plugable USBC-EC2500. It is decently built and seems stable enough although I’m only using it the 2nd day.
Here’s a link for it:

UK https://amzn.to/3o3ba7T

USA https://amzn.to/3o2W2Hw

I’ve also made a little snapshot about the present of it in my Synology.
The other things I use are the Qnap 2.5 and a RTL815 based pci-e card in my desktop pc.

 

 

How to install

Preparation

Enable SSH and login your NAS.

Installation DSM 6

  1. Go to “Package Center”
  2. Press “Manual Install”
  3. Chose a driver package downloaded from the release page.
  4. [DSM7] The installation will fail the first time. After that, run the following command from the SSH terminal: sudo install -m 4755 -o root -D /var/packages/r8152/target/r8152/spk_su /opt/sbin/spk_su
  5. [DSM7] Retry installation. (You don’t need above DSM7 specific steps at the next time.)

https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/SRM/help/SRM/PkgManApp/install_buy

How to configure

You can configure the IP addresses and MTU of the added NICs from the DSM UI in the same way as the built-in NICs.

Option: I recommend setting MTU to 9000 and SMB protocol version to v3 for better performance.

Source: https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152

Also works on DSM7 

  1. Install DSM toolkit on clean ubuntu VM and set up according to the official DSM 7.0 Beta PDF

  2. Edit the pkgscripts-ng/include/applyEnv file. Line 40 from:KERNEL_SEARCH_PATH=”$SysRootLib/modules/$PRODUCT-$DSM_SHLIB_MAJOR.$DSM_SHLIB_MINOR/build”to:KERNEL_SEARCH_PATH=”$SysRootLib/modules/DSM-$DSM_SHLIB_MAJOR.$DSM_SHLIB_MINOR/build”(this fixes build errors)

  3. Edit the required INFO.sh file and add the line:os_min_ver=”7.0-40000″

  4. compile SPK with:sudo ./PkgCreate.py -v 7.0 -p evansport -c r8152 –min-sdk 7.0

  5. extract the resulting SPK file as a zip and extract the r8152.ko file.

  6. put it on the synology and use insmod to load the module

  7. enable interface with:ifconfig eth1 up

Source : https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/l349md/dsm_70_usb_device_drivers_working_25g_usb/

 

 

 



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3 thoughts on “Synology compatible USB 2.5Gbit Ethernet adapter”

  1. Did you just plug it or did you have to install drivers or something else. I saw a process of installing drivers from a GitHub page, which is fine but I would love if this is just plug and play.

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