Overview

Introduction

This expansion board adds two 2.5G network port for Raspberry Pi 5, which can meet your various needs for those who need to use Raspberry Pi 5 as a router, gateway, firewall, and other network devices that need more than one network port.

Features

• Through the PCIe interface with PCIe Switch chip to expand into two PCIe interfaces and then through the RTL8125 chip to achieve the expansion of dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet.

• After power on, the expansion board can be automatically recognised as eth1 and eth2 without driver under Raspberry Pi official OS/OpenWrt system. However, when you use ubuntu system, you need to install the driver of RTL8125 and then you can use it.

• PCIe to Dual 2.5G Ethernet Port HAT expansion board, able to achieve high-speed reading/writing.

• Specially designed for Raspberry Pi 5, compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 8GB/4GB computer (NOT include Raspberry Pi 5).

Installation Guide

Installation of PCIe FPC Cable

Pay attention to the direction of the cable and connect it as shown in the figure:

Installation of adapter board

How to Use Ethernet Ports

Open Terminal and use the following command:

ifconfig -a

If eth1 and eth2 appear, it means that our ZP595 hardware is connected successfully and the two network devices eth1 and eth2 appear. Otherwise, check whether the FPC cable is installed normally.

At this time, we can connect network cable to the two network ports, and then they can communicate normally.

Packing List

Support

If you have any question or need technical support, please contact: support@zde.plus.