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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 23/12/2017, 10:29:01 UTC
please whatever you do, on the next version of moonlanders, make this 2nd gen compatible with whatever version driver and next gen moonlander there is. :]
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 22/12/2017, 17:21:49 UTC
alright my miner dudes. so I think(fingers crossed) that I finally have a pretty good starting set-up going. so here is my three moonlander 2s running on this usb hub that i bought. it was slightly pricey but i didn't mind as its small but yet very powerful.
http://www.usbgear.com/10PCHGRHUBMINI.html
unfortunately I can only fit up to 6 miners with fans, but definitely can fit 10 without the fans..

How fast can you run them on that hub?
so far i've got the three running at a solid 4.30mh/s each with an avarage of A:1600 and R:5 HW:550/.55% with clock speed at 756 within a 12 hour time frame just close to stock settings. I would think I would be able to max them out since the hub claims it can support the voltage and amps.we shall see in the future.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 22/12/2017, 05:59:49 UTC
alright my miner dudes. so I think(fingers crossed) that I finally have a pretty good starting set-up going. so here is my three moonlander 2s running on this usb hub that i bought. it was slightly pricey but i didn't mind as its small but yet very powerful.
http://www.usbgear.com/10PCHGRHUBMINI.html
unfortunately I can only fit up to 6 miners with fans, but definitely can fit 10 without the fans..
after fighting with my mac for about a week..constant help from you guys and other outsiders..and some other speed bumps along the way, even with high sierra, everything is starting to look good..
I would like to thank everyone for their support Kiss
I did want to ask, however, why is it that my other pools are not being deleted upon opening terminal? I delete them, quit(using commands), and exit. then if I start the terminal back up, the old unwanted pools are still there..should I be saving the run MLD2 file even after quitting? also has anyone tried mining other coins? do you use the same pool stratum address set-up as it is for litecoin.org in the .txt file?
thanks, also here are some noobish pics of my set up.. Grin
https://imgur.com/a/xETDA
https://imgur.com/a/NH6iM

If I want to add more sticks, do I need to add a worker for each stick? If so how do I add the new workers to the mine?
no. a "worker" would be all the miners connected in your bfgminer terminal..so if you have three miners all connected to your computer one way or another, they will all be connected to one worker, if you are referring to litecoinpool...that's how it works for me anyway
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 20/12/2017, 17:05:39 UTC

http://m.usbgear.com/10pchgrhubmini.html
Best one I found for a fair price. And supports the right amount of power per port
Not sure why you compare a PC to a usb hub, sure you could get a cheap PC for the price of a usb hub, but you are still left with about 2-3 USB ports and if you plan on running 3 miners on a PC you most likely won’t be able to fit them side-by-side or have enough power to keep three running on a cheap PC.

How many are going to actually fit? 6?
I've been using a $40 Anker hub that ran 2 sticks at 954mhz flawlessly, but is limited to 900mhz with 3 on it. Expecting a second one today to get my other 3 sticks going. OK, not as clean as one unit, but significant cost difference, plus I've not seen anyone say how many sticks they can run on that hub you linked to and at what speed. If the ports are actually limited to 2.1A that may not be enough to crank the speed up.
According to German Amazon site, Anker 60w 3.0 hub can provide max 0.9A per port and as my research goes on I am pretty sure there are no hubs providing more then 1A pro port except those industrial ones costing $100+...
Dam so many responses I dont think my phone can handle it haha, well..in response to game_of_coins yeah there should’ be much inside of a usb hub, witch also makes me wonder why they are so expensive, but then again it could contain some ICs that help distribute power and amps to specific ports that need it when used, I don’t use a RPI, I would only have the hub connected to my MACBook and plugged into either a power strip or the wall..as for cooling I would utilize a 14” fan that constantly blows air on the hub/miners, it doesn’t bother me for sleeping because I enjoy the ambient sound of a fan on. Not talking about a computer fan that sound alike a jet plane but a house fan, and maybe I’ll include some smaller usb ones too. Yes you are also right on the hub availability, most cheap ones only put out 900mha even ones I saw for 60-70usd are about 1a max, unless someone can find one that is more per port at a good value..and just a quick shoutout to all the Mac users out there who are running high Sierra with new driver..if you could message me that would be great, because I have some questions on how to troubleshoot some issues I’m having..like miner stops hashing during mac sleep, pools are still not deleting after removal and save, and possibly attempting to mine other script coins..thanks
 and just so the creator of this thread doesn’t get mad we went super off topic on usb hubs maybe start a new thread or continue an existing one haha..
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 20/12/2017, 14:21:12 UTC
Very happy with my units! These are with stock settings a clock speed of 796 and two USB fans to keep them cool its Summer here in Australia!
My knowlage is under average, so please someone correct me, but I think this is not best setup. Your errors are well above 1% because your hubs can not supply enough power for 3 sticks at that rate. Nextium hub is power supplied with 12V/2.5A which is insufficient for 3 miners @ cca. 4.5mh/s. At post #539 @racebyu is stating he has 2.4amps power draw per one stick @5mh/s. I repeat: I have no hubs at all, have only one stick and know less than average community member.

You will see under powered usb miners drop off on the hash rate and slowly go down, that is why the rest in the new software to my knowledge.
The more current available the better these will be able to run smoothly, I have zero issues with the higher current supply and working flawless.
More current is your friend here for higher hash rates of over 3.8Mh.
Thank you for clarification. I am pulling this one with @ozcointrader's (regards) post because I have one stick but am excpecting more in February so I'll need a hub at some point and I want to be sure it can deliver 2amps per port for at least 3 sticks. I saw his post and hubs, liked them, but googling says 2.5A alltogether (so 3 of them can pull 0.8A each. Am I missing something here?) Haven't found any hub providing 2A per port bellow $150 which is a shame. For $150-$200 you can buy used PC or laptop so I can not understand what the hell is in them for that price...
http://m.usbgear.com/10pchgrhubmini.html
Best one I found for a fair price. And supports the right amount of power per port
Not sure why you compare a PC to a usb hub, sure you could get a cheap PC for the price of a usb hub, but you are still left with about 2-3 USB ports and if you plan on running 3 miners on a PC you most likely won’t be able to fit them side-by-side or have enough power to keep three running on a cheap PC.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 20/12/2017, 12:09:52 UTC
I don’t know about macs but in Windows, there is an option in Device Manager that stops the pc from turning off USB ports
Maybe I’ll give that a try and see if there is something in Settings to change that..thanks for the tip
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 20/12/2017, 11:19:26 UTC
I’ve had this issue where the miner will be hashing normally with my mac on, awake, and no problems..running fine. But when my mac goes into “rest mode” aka, when the screen goes black and it’s “sleeping” the miner will stop hashing and when I press a key to awake my computer again..it will start hashing right away.(I can tell because there is the red light blinking like it normally should but when my MAC goes into sleepmode the red light will stop completely.) I’ll get all these funky errors when I log back in, viewing the terminal, such as pool is dead, to asic stopped hashing attempting to restart, it even spammed me with a lot of rejected shares yesterday(I never had that happen) but the thing is, I’ve had this miner running for 16 hours before the last three days when this started happening, even when my mac was in “sleep”mode for 90% of that time. I even tried it on the hub and does the same, tried it on the computer USB port, does the same..so you think that it’s because my computer is in sleep mode and disconnects from the miner?? Thanks
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 19/12/2017, 20:21:55 UTC
What’s up 64brotendos..so I recently found a hub that I would assume successfully supports my MLD2s(as of today I’m currently waiting on shipment) here it is:
http://m.usbgear.com/10pchgrhubmini.html
So this is more oriented towards the people who only have a couple sticks and don’t feel like spending all your Christmas money on a big ol’ Hub, this was about 150-160 total with 2 day air ups shipping. According to the description it has 5v/2.1a (max) per port, so for me, hitting about 4.20 stock settings at 756clock, hopefully up to 5mh/s this should work..
Let me know if this was a good buy or waste of my money. And if you think this will be capable of handling three LMD2s(I don’t see why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but I am new to mining so who knows😒
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 18/12/2017, 23:10:05 UTC
so I have three miners on a usb hub, one was running fine all by itself but as soon as i connect the other two it says ASIC stopped hashing, attempting to restart..what could be my problem? I tried to add devices but when i go into the "add devices" option i use the "all" selection and when i had one miner even on the hub it connected and worked..so why can't they all connect when I click "all"
(p.s. when they are all connected they come up as MLD0 MLD1 MLD2)
thanks
(p.s.s) (im not sure how to search serial ports since it is a hub..or is that the number on the moonlander..thanks
edit now it is telling me device is not configured...how do i configure my devices

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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 17/12/2017, 23:00:30 UTC
Received my order, pretty pumped. Downloaded all updated drivers for Mac. Open up to start the error messages are lazy symbol binding failed, Symbol not found: _clock_gettime. Any help would be appreciated.
my guy, i'm also using MAC on the stoned sierra and it's seriously a pain in the ass.. either you get the "file is damaged" please delete window and can't open the file, or i've gotten the terminal window where it says my session was closed and saved and doesn't start the mining process back up even though the miner is plugged in. you just have to mess with it. from copying the folder then changing the "run moonlander 2" then saving then copy. or even changing the "run moonlander 2" file then copy and save. It sucks..but after a few strained hairs and some cursing it worked again..BUT before that..dont forget to turn your mac off, and do the PITA process where you disable the SIP and then install the slialabs driver then turn the mac off..restart..again..and re enable the SIP. then you should be able to download the MAC64(new updated version) BFGminer ZIP..if im stating that correctly. then after that it's back to messing around with the copying and getting the ML2 to run with your user and preferred clock speed settings.

In response to JAUER...yes i also had this issue where I STILL had to babysit the miner to make sure it ran correctly and didn't either just randomly shut off/stop hashing/ or a new one i recently encountered was it said the "pool was dead" so idk..just kinda still messing with it on my MAC to see if i can get this sun of a beotch to run correctly..
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 17/12/2017, 22:48:22 UTC
anyone wanna be a real homie and hook ya boi up with the best memory and core voltage + best MLD clock set to reach that 5.5/6 mh/s??
yes you gottas keep them cool. a nice 14" fan is doing the trick. we all miners here why not help eachother out Wink
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 15/12/2017, 16:48:11 UTC


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1)Numbers look good
2)Download the new bfgminer version that addresses this issue
3)Your confusing the silicon labs UART driver with my bfgminer mining software(that includes the driver for the Moonlander). You don't need to reinstall the UART driver and do the workaround again, only thing you need is to just download the updated binary and run that instead of the old one.
4)Do you have a config.txt file that your running? This picks up settings as well, also make sure your not running off the desktop image when you download the driver, and save the bfgminer folder somewhere on your hard drive, otherwise changes you do to the start-moonlander file wont save.


Awesome thank you so much for the very well explained answers, I appreciate it so much, your doing great at everything you do..keep up the awesome job Wink
Response to #4.. I believe I’m running a txt file, the macs use an app called text editor witch allows me to change things like user and MHZ rate, etc. I think I forgot to actually save the start-moonlander file to my computer as I only copied it and moved the copy to my desktop..so I’ll try that tonight along with some tuning stuff and see if it corrects it. Thanks! Smiley
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 15/12/2017, 14:15:28 UTC
Hey guys..I got a couple questions here..so I am currently running MACOS high Sierra, and apon following the walk around to download the driver, everything works great!(thanks to the team to tackle that obstacle) so my miner was currently running at stock core and memory voltages, 756mhz, 4.04/4.17/4.28h A:1362 R:3 hw 50/.14% (estimated numbers from my last run in a 4:45 hour timeframe)
Question 1. Do those numbers look acceptable to you guys? It doesn’t seem bad to me but I want to shoot for the 5-5.5 mh/s so I might jump into tuning slightly today.

Question 2. So my miner was running one night for 16 hours straight(unfortunately don’t have numbers from that) then it randomly stopped hashing and basically went dormant..*Is this normal? I want it to get to a point where I can set it, and forget it, maybe check on it a couple times a day but not babysit and worry about it stopping.

Question 3. Is there an update for the driver so when I go to install the new one(as of 12/14/17) I have to do the walk around again just to update?

Question 4. So every time I open “run moonlander 2” terminal(for Mac) I constantly have three pools showing but only one of them is the one I’m actually using, and every time I go and delete the other unneeded ones they keep constantly showing back up even after I close/save session and start the program back up again. Any reason for this??
Thanks everyone!!  Smiley

To get the speed you're wanting you're going to be at 900mhz or more and need external cooling.

What driver did you use? There was new binary release yesterday that addressed restarts.
I have a nice 14” fan sending some cool air my way:) and I’m using the original released driver and haven’t had a chance to update to the new one yet..
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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Christmaskkid
on 15/12/2017, 13:28:13 UTC
Hey guys..I got a couple questions here..so I am currently running MACOS high Sierra, and apon following the walk around to download the driver, everything works great!(thanks to the team to tackle that obstacle) so my miner was currently running at stock core and memory voltages, 756mhz, 4.04/4.17/4.28h A:1362 R:3 hw 50/.14% (estimated numbers from my last run in a 4:45 hour timeframe)
Question 1. Do those numbers look acceptable to you guys? It doesn’t seem bad to me but I want to shoot for the 5-5.5 mh/s so I might jump into tuning slightly today.

Question 2. So my miner was running one night for 16 hours straight(unfortunately don’t have numbers from that) then it randomly stopped hashing and basically went dormant..*Is this normal? I want it to get to a point where I can set it, and forget it, maybe check on it a couple times a day but not babysit and worry about it stopping.

Question 3. Is there an update for the driver so when I go to install the new one(as of 12/14/17) I have to do the walk around again just to update?

Question 4. So every time I open “run moonlander 2” terminal(for Mac) I constantly have three pools showing but only one of them is the one I’m actually using, and every time I go and delete the other unneeded ones they keep constantly showing back up even after I close/save session and start the program back up again. Any reason for this??
Thanks everyone!!  Smiley