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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Mac OS X Resource & Howto for cgminer 3.8.1 & bfgminer 3.5.1 (Homebrew/DIY/Bins)
by
singermornings
on 21/11/2013, 20:36:51 UTC
Just as a heads up, the only way I was able to get cgminer to see my BlueFury under Mac OS 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 was to 'unload' the new USB modem

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC
sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDCACMData

Hopefully this will save someone else a LOT of hair pulling

Finally have a BF1 (Red Fury on-loan) and can confirm this. Before doing this I would get the following error:

Code:
cgminer -d?
 [2013-11-21 15:06:02] Started cgminer 3.8.2
 [2013-11-21 15:06:03] bitfury detect (93:2) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)
 [2013-11-21 15:06:04] Devices detected:
 [2013-11-21 15:06:04] 0 devices listed

After unloading both kernel extensions and re-plugging the device cgminer was able to recognize it.

I tried that also. On cgminer (I have v. 3.6.6) I get this:

Code:
willy$ cgminer -d?
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Started cgminer 3.6.6                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:17) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:16) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:14) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:12) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:11) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:10) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:9) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:8) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:51] Icarus detect (253:6) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:52] Devices detected:                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:52]   0. GPU 0 (driver: opencl)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:29:52] 1 devices listed 

The 9 devices correspond to the Block erupters (I only use cgminer for LTC)

and on bfgminer:
Code:
iMac-de-willy:~ willy$ bfgminer -S all -d?
 [2013-11-21 21:32:26] Started bfgminer 3.6.0                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:31] Read of fd 10 returned 0                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38] Devices detected:                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   0. ICA 0  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   1. ICA 1  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   2. ICA 2  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   3. ICA 3  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   4. ICA 4  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   5. ICA 5  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   6. ICA 6  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   7. ICA 7  (driver: icarus)                   
 [2013-11-21 21:32:38]   8. ICA 8  (driver: icarus)                   
9 devices listed
iMac-de-willy:~ willy$ bfgminer -S bigpic:all -d?
 [2013-11-21 21:35:03] Started bfgminer 3.6.0                   
 [2013-11-21 21:35:04] Devices detected:                   
 [2013-11-21 21:35:04]   0. OCL 0  (driver: opencl)                   
1 devices listed
iMac-de-willy:~ willy$ bfgminer -S BF1:all -d?
 [2013-11-21 21:35:11] Started bfgminer 3.6.0                   
 [2013-11-21 21:35:11] Devices detected:                   
 [2013-11-21 21:35:11]   0. OCL 0  (driver: opencl)

I'm going to try on an Ubuntu virtual machine.... see what happens.