Add USB 5Gbps ethernet adapter RTL8157 to Synology DSM
28 Aug 2024
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Tutorials are from a third party github(https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152), wisdpi does not make any guarantees.
Supported platform:
- Synology DSM 7.x and 6.2
- Architecture:
- Alpine
- Alpine4k
- Apollolake
- Armada37xx
- Armada38x
- Avoton
- Braswell
- Broadwell
- Broadwellnk
- Bromolow
- Cedarview
- Denverton
- Epyc7002
- Geminilake
- Monaco
- R1000
- RTD1296
- V1000
- What kind of CPU does my Synology NAS have?
How to install ?
Preparation
- USB 3.2 5Gbps ethernet adapter WP-UT5
- Download drive package form https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152/releases
- Enable SSH and login to your NAS.
Installation
- Go to "Package Center"
- Press "Manual Install"
- Choose a driver package downloaded
- [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
- [DSM7] Retry installation. You don't need the above DSM7-specific steps at the next time.
- Reboot your NAS. This procedure is not usually necessary, but many have reported that a reboot was necessary, so please reboot just in case.
- Open the driver package from the Package Center and start the driver manually.
- Warning: Do not use Safari for this operation.
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.
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