Title: How do I start mining on a Raspberry Pi 2? Post by: Abiky on July 28, 2015, 01:49:41 PM I've recently ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 from ebay (cost me $42) with the interest of mining alt coins with it. I already own a miner, which is a Gridseed GC3355 but I don't know how to set it up with my newly purchased RPi.
http://cdn.img42.com/ec581492f89959af182be7eeed03d45b.jpeg My questions are the following: How do I install the drivers for the miner in the RPi? How to properly configure cgminer on a RPi? Please help. I'm still a noob when it comes to configuring miners. Thank You. :) Title: Re: How do I start mining on a Raspberry Pi 2? Post by: Abiky on July 28, 2015, 07:01:08 PM Any hint on how to get started? It seems very complicated to work with Raspbian/Linux ???
Title: Re: How do I start mining on a Raspberry Pi 2? Post by: Abiky on July 29, 2015, 01:49:19 PM for your gridseed its usb correct i run 2 gridseed 5 chip miners on my raspberri pi look up minera or get it from getminera.com and download that and install it to the sd card its pretty self explanatory good refrence material is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596620.0 directly from the devloper im running 0.6.1 on my pi b+ but i think it works on pi2 also Thanks a lot for your help! I'm going to take a look at this as soon as I get home. :D Title: Re: How do I start mining on a Raspberry Pi 2? Post by: Abiky on July 29, 2015, 02:20:53 PM for your gridseed its usb correct i run 2 gridseed 5 chip miners on my raspberri pi look up minera or get it from getminera.com and download that and install it to the sd card its pretty self explanatory good refrence material is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596620.0 directly from the devloper im running 0.6.1 on my pi b+ but i think it works on pi2 also Thanks a lot for your help! I'm going to take a look at this as soon as I get home. :D 1.Load image to micro sd 2. Connect gridseed to pi via usb or powered usb hub 3. Connect pi 2 to router via ethernet 4. go to your router IP and find the ip for the pi2 (under connected devices usually) 5. Type the IP for the pi 2 into your browser 6.Login in to pi via web interface (will look a website) 7. configure miners (your gridseed will be listed) and pools. Great! Thanks for sharing this info! By the way, is there a way to turn miner on/off automatically at a set time? I'm planning on leaving my RPI turned on 24/7 but I'm afraid that the miner would not resist being powered on all that time. I just want to make it turn off at a certain time and then turn it on when I get back home (as I'm in college) Title: Re: How do I start mining on a Raspberry Pi 2? Post by: Abiky on July 29, 2015, 02:37:58 PM for your gridseed its usb correct i run 2 gridseed 5 chip miners on my raspberri pi look up minera or get it from getminera.com and download that and install it to the sd card its pretty self explanatory good refrence material is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596620.0 directly from the devloper im running 0.6.1 on my pi b+ but i think it works on pi2 also Thanks a lot for your help! I'm going to take a look at this as soon as I get home. :D 1.Load image to micro sd 2. Connect gridseed to pi via usb or powered usb hub 3. Connect pi 2 to router via ethernet 4. go to your router IP and find the ip for the pi2 (under connected devices usually) 5. Type the IP for the pi 2 into your browser 6.Login in to pi via web interface (will look a website) 7. configure miners (your gridseed will be listed) and pools. Great! Thanks for sharing this info! By the way, is there a way to turn miner on/off automatically at a set time? I'm planning on leaving my RPI turned on 24/7 but I'm afraid that the miner would not resist being powered on all that time. I just want to make it turn off at a certain time and then turn it on when I get back home (as I'm in college) Now make sure you don't have any big wallet amounts on your home pc when you do this as it may make it more vulnerable. Will do this...Thanks for your advice. I appreciate all your help ;) Title: Re: How do I start mining on a Raspberry Pi 2? Post by: Abiky on July 29, 2015, 02:42:35 PM for your gridseed its usb correct i run 2 gridseed 5 chip miners on my raspberri pi look up minera or get it from getminera.com and download that and install it to the sd card its pretty self explanatory good refrence material is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596620.0 directly from the devloper im running 0.6.1 on my pi b+ but i think it works on pi2 also Thanks a lot for your help! I'm going to take a look at this as soon as I get home. :D 1.Load image to micro sd 2. Connect gridseed to pi via usb or powered usb hub 3. Connect pi 2 to router via ethernet 4. go to your router IP and find the ip for the pi2 (under connected devices usually) 5. Type the IP for the pi 2 into your browser 6.Login in to pi via web interface (will look a website) 7. configure miners (your gridseed will be listed) and pools. Great! Thanks for sharing this info! By the way, is there a way to turn miner on/off automatically at a set time? I'm planning on leaving my RPI turned on 24/7 but I'm afraid that the miner would not resist being powered on all that time. I just want to make it turn off at a certain time and then turn it on when I get back home (as I'm in college) Now make sure you don't have any big wallet amounts on your home pc when you do this as it may make it more vulnerable. Will do this...Thanks for your advice. I appreciate all your help ;) Yes. SSH looks very complicated to use. I would prefer remote VNC connection to the PI as I would better manage it via the GUI. :D |