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Well after giving up on this a long time ago due to problems every time I tried upgrading my DSM version from 5.1 I finally gave it another try on DSM 5.2-5644 and finally had a successful upgrade. I followed Trantor's suggestion and it worked flawlessly with ax88179_178a on DSM 5.2-5644 Update 5. Thank you!

Got the info from forum threads, no tutorial, was mostly guesswork, trial and error. Can't remember what threads and don't remember the exact steps. As I never got it to work I may have been doing it completely wrong anyway. Too busy with work to spend the time to figure it all out again. Sorry, I know that's not much help.

Nope. Even tried getting the drivers into a release via the driver request page. I got an AX88179 adapter to test with but couldn't get it to work, gave up in the end. No idea if current xenoboot works as I can't get any version above 5.1-5022.3 to work without trying a clean install. I probably still have the files I tried with somewhere but don't think they would work with current builds. I assume there is still no support for usb3.0 gigabit adapters. (Would love to be proven wrong)

Done everything in this thread to get this driver working with DSM 5.1 (5022.2) and it works uptil the point I do 'ifconfig eth1 up' at which point the Xpenology reboots as soon as I issue the command.

Please add support for ANY USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Did already attempt to drum up interest in this with no success. Even tried compiling driver for someone to test. AX88179 seems the most common chipset. This is my original thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5260 Suggested chipsets : AX88179 and RTL8153 AX88179 chipset driver download: http://www.asix.com.tw/FrootAttach/driv ... CE.tar.bz2 Manufacturer driver downloads I used: http://www.ianker.com/download.php?file ... %203.x.zip http://www.ianker.com/download.php?file ... ux.tar.bz2 Compiled AX88179 driver (Used gcc473_glibc217_x86_64_bromolow-GPL and synogpl-5004-x64): http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/6 ... a-rar.html Appears that the AX88179 has been wanted for a long time, old thread about it: viewtopic.php?t=928

Not sure if this helps, but when running it in virtualbox I select Linux 3.x as the version (Stage 2 on that tutorial), not 2.4. Never had a problem. At what point is the "please contact support" coming up? Also, never bothered changing sn or mac in virtualbox so doubt it's that, could be wrong.

Compiled the driver for DSM 5.1 (Used gcc473_glibc217_x86_64_bromolow-GPL and synogpl-5004-x64) I hope I did it right, can someone please test it? Should work if you just drop the .ko into /lib/modules I think. Couldn't attach it as I got a "board attachment quota has been reached" warning, so here's a link instead. http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/6 ... a-rar.html

Due to the distinct lack of info about USB 3.0 Gigabit adapters on Xpenology and only one reply to my query I am attempting to compile kernel drivers for both the AX88179 and RTL8153 chipsets, for Xpenology 5.1. As I don't yet have the adapter, is there a kind soul on here who does have one that can test the kernel drivers once I have finished compiling them? (assuming I don't fail miserably) Or, if anyone has a different USB 3.0 Gigabit adapter I will compile the driver for that instead to try. Whatever it takes to get a USB 3.0 Gigabit lan adapter to work.

Just built the same setup, Asrock Q1900 with DS380 case, originally was using a PM card with a 2 port pcie sata card but due to the lack of PM drivers I got the Syba SATA III 4 Port PCI-e sbv3000 mentions and that works fine, yeah you end up with 500mb/s divided by 4 so 125mb/s each but not much can be done about that, still more than the gigabit lan will be able to do. Bottleneck will be the lan most likely. I have been looking into using an adapter for the mini pcie which appears to be 2.0 (according to lspci). If this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HUV4NUK works then you could have a second syba card to have 12 ports in total at a min of 125mb/s or you could use two http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Po ... B003GS8VA4 for 250mb/s from each port and 8 ports total (I have that card and it works fine with xpenology). Of course, no idea if an adapter would work or if xpenology would even register a non wifi mini pcie card in that slot in the first place. Ed: for attaching the pcie riser I was thinking if you just reverse the pcie sata adapter on the bracket so the pcie male end points away from the motherboard it would all fit in the ds380 perfectly, again, in theory. Also, despite the riser saying it is pcie 1.0, found other sources on the net that do say it can work at 2.0.

Actually the main adapter I am looking at uses the RTL8153 chip (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00PC0P2DI), it seems the older model of the same one uses the AX88179 chip. Of course as I don't actually have one yet, am willing to buy whatever one is confirmed as working. After making the mistake of buying a sata port multiplier and finding it doesn't work will not buy something to use with xpenology now unless it has been confirmed as working. You say it is easy to copy kernel drivers to enable it in boot, is there a tutorial somewhere on all that?

Running 5.1 with my Q1900 and have transferred about 6tb to and from the nas between it, a DS414, a windows 8.1 pc and a ubuntu pc without any hanging issues. Baremetal with latest Q1900 bios.

Running 5.1 bare metal on my Q1900 without issue, only bug I have come across is the expansion issue which has been mentioned in other threads. Been running for a week or two now and no missing volumes. Running latest bios, also without issue though as I have my DS on 24x7 I haven't tried WOL yet.

Tested and also had the same issue with 5.1-5022 SHR. Interestingly the disk group would expand, just the volume group that wouldn't.

I have a similar system, a raspberry pi running openelec with cifs/nfs mounted shares from synology/xpenology diskstations. I am using the old RPi and they work perfectly for full HD so am sure the new ones would be even better (it's even powered by a diskstation). For under 30 quid for a media center you can't go wrong. As for the actual topic question, only way I would assume it is possible is running xpenology and xbmc virtualised on the same machine. Bare metal I don't see as being possible.

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Hi, Has anyone used an USB Ethernet adapter with xpenology 5.1+ with success? If so, what one works? Looking to add another ethernet port to my xpenology NAS but have no space pcie slots. I know wireless adapters work, but will be using it for a high availability setup with another diskstation so wireless just doesn't cut it.

Due to the motherboard I am using only having one PCIE 2.0 x1 this seemed the best way to get 8 sata ports without losing too much speed (2 onboard @ 300mb/s + 1 onboard @ 600mb/s + port multiplier using 3 ports @ 200mb/s + 2 pcie @ 250mb/s) also giving me support for 2 more 2.5inch hdd if needed in the future. This is working on the fact that I will be using 6tb nas drives which seem to be around 180-240mb/s in benchmarks. If there is no support for port multiplier cards I guess the only other choice is to ditch the PM card and 2x sata card and just use the one you suggested to get 8 ports, albeit 4 of those at only 125mb/s (if my assumption of 500mb/s pcie x1 bandwidth divided by 4 is correct, and I know the sata speed numbers aren't as high as that in real use).

Let me ask a slightly different question then, has anyone got an internal port multiplier card working with Xpenology?

Hi, Just finished building a new xpenology server but cannot get the port multiplier card working. Was hoping someone might have a suggestion for how to get it working? Hardware (though most is probably not necessary, including for thoroughness): Lycom ST-172A SATA III-6Gbps 1-to-5 Port Multiplier [the offending item, http://www.lycom.com.tw/ST-172A.htm] Startech 2 Port PCIE Controller Card ASRock Q1900-ITX 2GB Ram Silstertone DS380 4x1tb HDD (for testing etc, will be putting 8-12 drives from 6tb to 8tb each in the end) The motherboard SATA 3 ports are ASMedia 1061 Port Multiplier compatible ports and work fine with ubuntu, issue only occurs with xpenology. Nanoboot with xpenology 5.0x doesn't register the PM card at all, with XPenoboot and 5.1x the first HDD on the PM card works. From what I can tell the PM card uses JMicron JMB575A chipset (card appears identical to Startech PM card which uses that chip http://uk.startech.com/HDD/Adapters/~ST521PMINT). I have scoured the forum and google looking for a solution, the best I have come up with is viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1361&start=350#p12685 but it seems unclear if that is not implemented in 5.x or if that was only for 4.2? Any help would be appreciated.