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2.5GBe USB LAN
I have an old Ultra2 2Gb RAM running 6.10.9 OS. NAS is working great but 1Gb LAN is a bottleneck. I've bought cheap 2.5GBe USB LAN adapter based on realtek chip, attached to USB3 port and installed ...
Hi, could you explain how to proccess whole driver installation? You are talking regarding driver compilation.
There is package you refer to (R8152 package - oficial website driver) and something called DKMS.. last time i tried DKMS (from github project), installed appeared correctly, but no new ethernet adapter appeared. Currently uptodate version is both 2.21.4
Im noob in this.. modding old outdated linux, like mobs like to say. :-) I have bought cheap RTL8157 5gbe adapter from CableMatters at ebay recently. Connected to the only usb 3.1 at RN312 unit. It appears in usb listed devices, etc. I dont expect miracle, but network transfers speed improvement would be better. This topic gave me hope.
I would add lsusb and other commands info, but currently, just for sure, reinstalling and defaulting whole RNOS after last fail.
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