Re: Now available: Lancelot (Heavy Duty 400 Mega hashes, 2 x FPGA Mining Board)
I received my 4 units a few days ago. Thank you.
I had trouble getting it to work with cgminer right away. So I was using BitMinter for a few days at first.
The default Windows cgminer builds appear to require OpenCL.dll installed on the system. I built from source without that dependency, but still couldn't get it to work. It appears that for com ports above 9, you have to list them in the arguments as -S \\.\comXX. instead of -S comXX. This was in the README. I should have read it more closely at the beginning. It's working fine now on my Windows desktop.
Cgminer is much less resource intensive than BitMinter, which ran under Java. I also have an Asus RT-N16 router with TomatoUSB firmware on it with Optware installed. I've read about people running cgminer under OpenWrt. Anyone know how to get cgminer running under Tomato?
There is a cgminer-nogpu.exe in the windows binary zip file I had trouble getting it to work with cgminer right away. So I was using BitMinter for a few days at first.
The default Windows cgminer builds appear to require OpenCL.dll installed on the system. I built from source without that dependency, but still couldn't get it to work. It appears that for com ports above 9, you have to list them in the arguments as -S \\.\comXX. instead of -S comXX. This was in the README. I should have read it more closely at the beginning. It's working fine now on my Windows desktop.
Cgminer is much less resource intensive than BitMinter, which ran under Java. I also have an Asus RT-N16 router with TomatoUSB firmware on it with Optware installed. I've read about people running cgminer under OpenWrt. Anyone know how to get cgminer running under Tomato?
If you need more info about FPGA it's also in FPGA-README
Also as I've implied in this thread, the next version of cgminer will have a pure USB Icarus driver (which handles the Lancelot also) which will require the driver changes as mention in FPGA-README when it's ready.