Re: Home Server for family pix & vids

[Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>]

Quoting Jason Marks (jymarks@sbcglobal.net):

> This summer I came to the realization that a cheap desktop could serve
> as a centralized repo of family pix and vids.

Be warned that desktop boxen often make unsatisfactory servers for lots
of individually compelling reasons.  And going as cheap as humanly
possible increases the challenges.

> Eventually got back to the store and exchanged it for a PCIe NIC.
> TP-Link TG-3468. Not detected.

This is a really cut-rate design.  It replies on a Realtek
RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller chip and is
supported by the r8169 driver.  You're not going to get a decent gigabit
NIC at a $12 price point, by the way.

If you want to not have problems, avoid NICs based on Realtek chips;
gravitate towards NICs with Intel chips.

Meantime, try a different PCIe slot if possible, and check the NIC and
motherboard documentation to see if there's settings to control IRQ
assignment.

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