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So, that extra module that I've ordered. Can I run it with anything else but the main control boards?
Let's say rPi?

Please advice.

It's a BeagleBone Black (Circuito, Newark or Farnell) inside the KNC as far as I can tell. Similar to the RaspeBerry Pi -- but that's all.

which is mounted to the actual controller board..
I don't see how you'd connect the data ribbon to a BBB without one.

What a great morning...Gox @ 427.....coinbase @ 390... nice!

Suggestion for KNC's GEN2... Native WiFi Wink

a small pci slot on the controller board...and a 5 dollar 10/100 wifi card...

sorry for being pedantic but it's a plain BeagleBone, not the Black version. And if memory serves KnC removed the USB interface.

from dmesg:

Code:

[ 2.181344] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: Baseboard: 'A335BNLT,0A5C,3713910497ÿÿ'
[ 2.189138] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: compatible-baseboard=ti,beaglebone-black
[ 2.221178] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: bone: Invalid signature '49313030' at slot 0
[ 2.229407] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #0: No cape found
[ 2.266584] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #1: No cape found
[ 2.303692] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #2: No cape found
[ 2.340802] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #3: No cape found
[ 2.347069] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #4: specific override
[ 2.353678] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: bone: Using override eeprom data at slot 4
[ 2.361723] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #4: 'Bone-LT-eMMC-2G,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONE-EMMC-2G'
[ 2.372230] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: initialized OK.
[ 2.377895] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #4: Requesting firmware 'cape-bone-2g-emmc1.dtbo' for board-name 'Bone-LT-eMMC-2G', version '00A0'

it says "beaglebone-black". I'm not an expert on these things, but I wouldn't imagine a non-black version would have that entry. Could be wrong tho. In addition, some folks matched up the physical layout from the preproduction pictures to be the Black version, IIRC. Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there in case someone found it interesting/useful.

I stand corrected.
I've been somehow misled by Sam response on this thread.

http://forum.kncminer.com/forum/main-category/hardware/1269-is-the-linux-controller-a-beaglebone-black

but now that I've checked also the amount of memory match the Black version.

Code:

root@mine:~# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 510572 40420 470152 0 40
-/+ buffers: 40380 470192
Swap: 0 0 0