r8152 VS nixos-hardware

The network adapter performance is underwhelming and it keeps disconnecting every 2-3 min. It is connected in a usb-c port on a Thinkpad T480s. I found a post online from someone having this issue on Ubuntu. I tried adding the udev file rules for Realtek adapters mentionned in his post without success.

Those udev rules came from this file: https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152/blob/master/50-usb-realtek-net.rules (lines 12 and 13, with 8 and 9 subbed in.)

I saw a post from someone recently who used these USB adapters and this driver to add 2.5 Gbe capability to a DS1821+, though it should work with most current Synology devices.

Thanks for the suggestion, I wasn't aware of this option. I have since found this page https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152 and as it's looking like the nic on my NAS is in distress I am looking into ordering a usb type-a CableCreation 2.5G Ethernet to USB Adapter for AU$30

You will need to install additional drivers.

Another way is to get a 2.5gbe usb adapter and plug it into the USB port on the Synology. There's some software on GitHub that will make this work. I opted to go with an official Synology card. I already have a relatively complex network set up. I don't want to chance a sudden incompatibility and lose a weekend trying to figure out what went wrong.

Always useful to look at the seemingly endless stream of Linux information, the Arch wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ASUS_ROG_Zephyrus_G14_(2022...

Also NixOS has a nixos-hardware repository with configurations for some laptops:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master/asus/zep...

Reasonably legible if you ever programmed anything

{ imports = [ # Include the results of the hardware scan. ./hardware-configuration.nix # Additional hardware specific configuration # https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware ];

You could try this repo for hardware support on various laptops if yours is on it: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware

Btw, for starters, I think you can learn a lot by checking other's configurations and from things like https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware. There are a lot of useful/essential configurations that are not enabled by default.

in that case do note that this module assumes you use nixos-hardware, otherwise you can remove lines 161-165. I can also send you my VM's libvirtd .xml file when you get around to creating it.

My computer is a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with a dual GPU setup (AMD iGPU + Nvidia DGPU) where I'm using a "hybrid mode" configuration provided by nixos-hardware, using PRIME offload.

Not too long ago nixos-hardware changed the default Xorg driver for AMD to modesetting from amdgpu.