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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
-ck
on 21/11/2013, 20:49:26 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?)                   

I'm going to try on an Ubuntu virtual machine.... see what happens.
AMUs use a different driver (no idea what it's called on macosx), so if you have installed a driver for it, you will probably need to use the kextunload command but specify a different driver to unload than the AppleUSBCDC which is used by the BF1.