Also can anyone or asiabtc confirm that the units shipped with the old firmware and need to be updated to the new firmware in the first post. If so I'm going to be bummed because the instructions are written for windows and all I have are mac and linux boxes around the house.
I run the miners with the packaged mini controller (like a raspberry pi), this has linux installed in it (you can SSH it)
asiaBTC has a team working on a new firmware for the controllers, basically a new webbased configuration screen in english (the old was the one from GridSeed, which was in chinese).
So you don't need a (mac) desktop to run the USB miners.
But I don't think the new firmware is finished yet?
New firmware will be finished soon.