DS918+ apollolake 2.6.13-3 & Plugable USBC-E2500, missing from UI and eth2 not populated

[sgreadly]

Description of the problem

I followed the instructions on installing r8152-apollolake-2.16.3-3.spk and started the package successfully.

The problem is, eth2 is not showing up in ifconfig output (if i just run ifconfig without -a), and it's not displayed anywhere in the UI for me to configure.

I'm not sure what exactly I did wrong, or didn't fully do, to get it configured correctly.

Description of your products

DS918+ - DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 3

# uname -a
Linux S1 4.4.180+ #42962 SMP Tue Oct 18 15:05:01 CST 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux synology_apollolake_918+

Plugable USBC-E2500 - connected to the front port. The lights on the adapter are on indicating it's up and running.

Description of your environment

Synology connected to my Ubiquiti switch, which my MacBook is also connected to.

Cat6 cable.

Output of dmesg command

[ 2217.203925] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[ 2217.347055] usb 2-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[ 2217.418038] netif_napi_add() called with weight 256 on device eth%d
[ 2217.425302] r8152 2-1:1.0 eth2: v2.16.3 (2022/07/06)
[ 2217.430865] r8152 2-1:1.0 eth2: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:
               		US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.

[ 2217.448257] r8152 2-1:1.0 eth2: chip rev 14
[ 2217.452943] r8152 2-1:1.0 eth2: rx_buf_sz will be overridden to 16384

Output of lsusb command

# lsusb
|__usb1          1d6b:0002:0404 09  2.00  480MBit/s 0mA 1IF  (Linux 4.4.180+ xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller 0000:00:15.0) hub
  |__1-1         051d:0002:0106 00  1.10  1.5MBit/s 24mA 1IF  (American Power Conversion Back-UPS XS 1400U  FW:926.T2 .I USB FW:T2  4B1951P15092  )
  |__1-4         f400:f400:0100 00  2.00  480MBit/s 200mA 1IF  (Synology DiskStation 650082A893DA5A45)
|__usb2          1d6b:0003:0404 09  3.00 5000MBit/s 0mA 1IF  (Linux 4.4.180+ xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller 0000:00:15.0) hub
  |__2-1         0bda:8156:3100 00  3.20 5000MBit/s 256mA 1IF  (Realtek USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN 001000001)

Output of ifconfig -a command

root@S1:~# ifconfig -a
bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:32:8B:3E:89
          inet addr:192.168.xx.xx  Bcast:192.168.xx.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::xx/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2407:xx/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: 2407:xx/128 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:53338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:59101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:12167171 (11.6 MiB)  TX bytes:30895928 (29.4 MiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:32:8B:3E:89
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:53338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:59101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:12167171 (11.6 MiB)  TX bytes:30895928 (29.4 MiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:32:8B:3E:8A
          UP BROADCAST SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:AE:4C:DD:41:D5
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:24618 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24618 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
          RX bytes:6493189 (6.1 MiB)  TX bytes:6493189 (6.1 MiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[sgreadly]

Ok so I had to restart the NAS twice to get it to work - i.e., to show the interface in the UI.

After the first reboot, I noticed the "RTL8152" package was installed but not running. I started it (run) manually.

I had the adapter connected to the back USB port, but moved it to the front USB port after reading your documentation, and that's where I ended up at with the above details.

I just gave it another reboot and yes now it's working as expected.

Hope this helps, maybe to add somewhere in the instructions or docs as a "take care!" step.

[bb-qq]

I added a note about a reboot may be necessary.

If you are still using the acc111 driver, I would be happy to have a report of how it works on this thread.
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[sgreadly]

@bb-qq , do you mean aqc111? No worries I'll reply to the other thread tomorrow. Seems stable since! You can close this one off if you need to. Ta.