Re: [ANN] Technobit HEX16A2 - 16 chip Avalon Gen2 board

Hi Zich,

This is my first post and I don't know if I'm doing it correctly but here goes. I've never use Linux before but
I am trying to set up a couple of Technobit hex16a2's that I just purchased on ebay. I am using a Raspi loaded with Raspbian. I followed your instructions concerning loading and patching cgminer 3.12.3 and everything was working well until I tried to apply the patch. I get an error that states that the patch "unexpectedly ends in the middle of a line" and "only garbage was found in the patch input" Also I can't find the patch on Technobit's website
Is the file corrupted or am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hmm, did you type the command line by line or copy paste?
I bet that some line is miss when you type. You can copy then right click to paste it on ssh

You're right, I didn't realize that you can copy and paste into a terminal till near the end. I was typing and staring till my eyes bled ;-). I have now redone lines 5 and 6 with the same negative result. Maybe I have to start again from scratch and reflash raspbian to remove any transcription errors

I guess line 4 also not right Roll Eyes

I copied and pasted line 4,5 and 6 and still no joy. I'm just about to reflash raspbian and start from scratch. It will go much faster this time

Good luck

It's already time for me to sleep Cheesy

HI Guys,

I reflashed Raspbian and followed Zich's instructions to the letter by copying and pasting this time and everything was installed correctly. Thank you for all the help. Cgminer is now running and I filled in my pool details etc (eligius)when prompted. My problem is that everytime I exit putty cgminer shuts down. I couldn't see any options so I just click on the x in the top right corner of the window. I now know that's wrong. Anyone got a better method? Thanks again

Start cgminer in screen session then detach it Ctrl+a+d then exit then close putty
In general login via ssh
Type screen if you got error install it
In screen exec cgminer detach and exit

Thanks for the reply. When I logged in I typed sudo su so I'm in root as super user (thought I had to). Is there any way to get back to screen session as I don't want to shut down the miner. Sometimes it takes many restarts to get everything working correctly so I don't want to bail out of this session.

Screen -r
Read screen help and make sure you are reattaching session from same user account
All this stuff is happening in tplink with Thechnobit image. You should give it a try someday Wink

I'm not getting this. Sorry I feel like a dunce. I have cgminer running on the Putty terminal. The only options that I see are to type P,S,D or Q to bring up other options or quit. If I try to type nothing happens unless i hit one of the keys I just mentioned. If I type ctrl+a+d holding all keys down at once or any combination of them nothing happens. I did restart the program so I think I'm in screen but who knows.

Just invest some time reading and some time in trial and errors that is all i can say
Good luck

I tried ctrl+a+d again and now it works!!!! I guess I can follow simple instructions even if it takes me a few tries. Thanks a million for being so patient with me.