QNAS Scripts

Scripts for the QNAP NAS

USB Support

At the time writing this script (end 2020) there were no supported WIFI dongles for TBS-453DX. Thus I bought some good-looking device, but this did not work.

So I analyzed the software of the NAS and found two resources:

• a whitelist of QTS (thus only devices listed there could work)
• parsing the kernel modules would show the USB devices for which a driver exists

The devices of the whitelist shall be a subset of the devices which have a driver.

USB Whitelisting

The script ./qnas_get_usb_whitelist.sh lists all device, which are whitelisted by QNAP. This is done in the start-script at /etc/init.d/usb\_device\_check.sh.

In other words: When a device of this list is connected, the associated driver is loaded. This driver may work - but may also fail (due to hardware or software reasons). BUT - for devices which are not in this list, for sure no driver is loaded and for sure they will not work!