You can starting mining like this even without sgminer:
./managercoind -gen -addnode=173.212.249.142:8500 -addnode=173.212.221.64:8500
I do have a gridseed miner, i don't want to mine using cpu.
Okay, here is an example of managercoin.conf file which works for us:
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=1234567
rpsallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=8499
daemon=1
server=1
upnp=0
addnode=173.212.249.142:8500
addnode=173.212.221.64:8500
Anyway you can use pool from Imaha486 or any other pools which appear in a near future for successful mining.