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  • I’m not sure your rationale for picking Alipine for this use-case, but you might want to consider a more fleshed out distro for a NAS. Alpine is the BARE MINIMUM of an OS, meaning a lot of helpers that exist on other distros are not there for things like setting your power settings and link negotiations in certain cases. Sure the NIC driver is there, but all the nice tweaks for that specific module that exist in, say, Fedora Server aren’t going to be there, leading to this issue.

    I’d honestly just throw FreeNAS, TrueNAS, or Unraid on this box and be done with it. They’ll have all the power settings and tweaks meant for a NAS in place, and then you won’t need to spend time hunting stuff like this down.


  • It could be related to power saving settings and/or your power profile.

    Some Q’s:

    1. Is your computer awake and in use when this happens?
    2. Are any of your USB devices disconnecting at the same time?
    3. I see your connection is 100Full and not 1Gb, is that because whatever it’s patched to is only 10/100?

    I saw you tried to set power for the interface itself, but if this is a power issue, you probably want to disable power savings on your PCIe interfaces. Easiest way to do this is probably installing powertop, and navigating over to the ‘tunables’ menu, and disabling power management for those interfaces, just to test and see if it fixes it.



  • Nope.

    Hate to keep litigating this around here, but the shift alone is enough. Explaining to people WTF an immutable filesystem is, is a sure way to frustrate them into giving up, despite whatever comms finesse you might THINK you have.

    Counterpoint: STOP SUGGESTING IMMUTABLE DISTROS TO NEW USERS

    For people who just want a functional OS, they don’t want to have to think about new rules. They need a quick off-ramp from Windows that acts as they expect.

    Package management is already enough of a mindfuck for people switching, then you’re throwing in containers, permissions, flatpak vs native packages, what sandboxing is, why your browser likely can’t just upload a simple fucking file, and why your camera doesn’t work on Zoom, because you have a meeting in 10 minutes.

    Unless you are handing people something akin to a mobile OS with everything all inclusive and configured so EVERYTHING works off the bat, you’re doing such a huge disservice to people switching over to an immutable distro, and there is ZERO benefit, but all kinds of added frustration.

    You need to stop, and I yield my time.



  • It will TECHNICALLY still work at whatever version Nvidia cuts off support at, which is pretty soon for GTX cards (they’ve already cut off the mobile counterparts). So you’ll stop getting updates, but it should still work as long as that driver is made available still in some form that whatever distro you are using can install it, or you compile it from scratch. I would not trust Nvidia’s installer to still be working by then in it’s current form because it’s a MESS.