Hello all, (tl;dr at bottom)
I came across this project searching online. I didn't know such a thing existed! I'm not sure I'll join you all yet, but who knows! My issue is that I have an actual DS1618+ and I thought I did enough research but I didn't and rushed to buy a network card in a sale recently and as you can guess, seems it's not /no longer supported. I though, well maybe I can download the official drivers, run the automake script via ssl and be all good. Nah, seems like make is missing and makes me wonder if more is missing. In looking here, I found a thread in the /Loader Releases & Extras / Additional Complied Modules / section for driver extensions. In this area were people talking about drivers and even one where I believe they were discussing the one I need I also remember a person saying they ran one on Synology hardware. This lead to a github project by pocopico with lots of drivers, json files and so on.
I'm wondering if it is generally okay to install these on actual hardware? I see there are many ones like xyz hardware plus other hardware (broadwell, etc) What I guess is take the base driver or the driver plus hardware level, like my 1618+ is a denverton codename CPU, and then I can load right?
Details and tl;dr section
Actual DS1618+ user
Have a RTL8125 based card
DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 6
Card not seen by DSM
Can I use the pocopico drivers on actual harware? In this case should I use the 8125Plus-denverton driver or just the base 8125plus driver?
Thanks
P.S. IT person, not really a Linux person but I can figure out how to do it if it's a yes, any additional help given would be greatly taken though.