Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread

Quote from: Astrali on November 21, 2017, 11:22:30 PM

Quote from: RdStrcklnd on November 21, 2017, 10:32:47 PM

Any chance someone can write up a step-by-step guide for getting these working on a Raspberry Pi 3B? I'm a Linux novice and most of what I see assumes a certain level of know how. I was hoping to set it up wirelessly on Minera, but at this point I'm so confused I'll take what I can get... Thanks in advance!

so you need the a foolproof copy n paste "just get it to work" description?

i'll write a short version for you that is most probably not perfect - but will most probably work.

Login to your raspberry pi with putty. (if this already is a problem - let me know). - you can as well login locally if you got keyboard and screen attached!

install neccesary library files (thanks to jstefanop for providing this info)

Code:

sudo apt install libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Code:

mkdir miner

this will create a directory in your home directory for bfgminer.

Code:

cd miner

now you are in the new folder with the name "miner"

Code:

wget https://github.com/jstefanop/bfgminer/releases/download/bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2/bfgminer_5.4.2-futurebit2_linux_armv6.tar.gz

this will download the precompiled (ready to run) bfgminer from jstefanop.

now lets unpack this tar.gz file - this is a zipped tarball (something like a .zip file in windows - atleast similar)

Code:

tar xzfv bfgminer_5.4.2-futurebit2_linux_armv6.tar.gz

now theres running lots of text of the files being unpacked into a folder.

lets go into the new unpacked folder!

Code:

cd bfgminer_5.4.2-futurebit2_linux_armv6

here is the complete bfgminer including a short startup script from jstefanop.

now you can either edit the existing start script by using editor of your choice - i am using nano.

Code:

nano start_moonlander2.sh

and change the pool, the username (after -u) the password (after -p) and save the file again

Code:

CTRL + o

Code:

STRG + o

depending on keyboard layout.

now thats its saved - quit the editor.

Code:

CTRL + X

Code:

STRG + x

you are ready to do a test run!

Code:

./start_moonlander2.sh

now bfgminer will start (hopefully).

if you dont want to edit existing config you can as well try this:

Code:

echo ./bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333 -u jstefanop.1 -p 1,d=128 -S ALL --set MLD:clock=600 >startmoonlander.sh

in this line you change the pool - the username - the password option.
this will create a new file called "startmoonlander.sh" with your options - which can be modified later.

this file cant be used right now cause it is not executable. lets change that!

Code:

chmod +x startmoonlander.sh

and now you can try your new startup script!

Code:

./startmoonlander.sh

if you encounter any errors - describe them as good as possible or show us a screenshot and i bet - we will find a solution!

Greetings - Astrali

So I am trying to install on Pi4 and it all worked up till
(code) wget https://github.com/jstefanop/bfgminer/releases/download/bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2/bfgminer_5.4.2-futurebit2_linux_armv6.tar.gz

it comes back with a message:
unable to resolve host address