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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [Minera v0.4.0] Your next mining dashboard is here. CPUminer/CGminer/BFGminer.
by
Jhawkfan101
on 13/01/2015, 01:35:24 UTC
I needed to move my 2 AM Tubes from an office to the basement (wife said they were to loud). So I needed some way to make them wireless, Minera seemed like the answer!
but being relatively new to using Minera, I'm having some trouble getting Minera to connect to the tubes. I have the newest Minera build on a rpi B, I am connected to the rpi with the usb-uart adapter. I have tried both CGminer and BFGminer and neither of them work, is there something I am doing wrong or something I didnt do. I thought that CGminer would work for the tubes but I am not sure. Any help would be great! Thank You

First of all you should look at the dmesg log when you plug-in the USB cable:

- SSH into Minera
- plug-in one Tube
- do "sudo dmesg" and look if something happened (you should see something like "usb 1-1: New USB device found,  etc...")

Then if USB are correctly detected you should need to configure the miner:

for Bfgminer it should work, you can try to look at this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=769570.0

for Cgminer according to the readme you need to recompile it with the "--enable-blockerupter" option (this is not in the default cgminer on Minera) https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/ASIC-README


I will try to see if something happens when I plug it in but I can't try until I get back home from work. Also I have no idea how to recompile CGMiner is there somewhere that explains this process?

Ok, I got home and I SSH into Minera and looked at dmesg.
I see both 1-1: New USB device found and also 1-1.2: New USB device found. So I assume it is seeing the miner.
It says that BFGminer is online but it does not hash. The dials for everything just sit there and spin.
I'm not sure I have BFGminer setup correctly. And as I said earlier I have no idea how to compile CGminer.
So still not sure what to do, any help would be appreciated!
Thanks