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These are the instructions for installing BFG Miner on the Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian “wheezy”)

I would first like to thank the people who in various places have helped with laying out the steps for CGMiner, which with some tweaks worked for BFG
The link to CGMiner's steps can be found here http://techblog.sethleedy.name/?p=24276


You will need to first download the Linux Zip Archive from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78192.0. This thread is always updated with both the newest test, and newest stable versions(I would recommend sticking with the stable version unless you are very experienced.


Now that you have the zip file lets get started with the fun stuff Open the Terminal and get ready to punch some code. this isn't the quickest equipment so wait until the next open terminal line appears before continuing through the steps.

1 sudo aptitude update
2 sudo aptitude install autoconf libtool libncurses-dev yasm curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev pkg-config libudev-dev

3a sudo aptitude install libusb-dev      (needed in BFG Miner for ZTEX & X6500 FPGAs board support)(Skip if you don't have/won't be getting one of these boards)

Additional package required for bfgminer-3.3.0:

3b apt-get install uthash-dev

To enable opencl:sensors, apt-get install libsensors4-dev
To enable getwork proxy, apt-get instal libmicrohttpd-dev
To enable stratum proxy, apt-get instal libevent-dev
To enable ztex / x6500, apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

Navigate to where you saved the zip file (I will use the current BFGminer stable version for an example)

4 unzip bfgminer-2.8.3
5 cd bfgminer-2.8.3
6 ./autogen.sh unnecessary
7 ./configure
8 make

If you have not yet hooked up your FPGA to the Pi, now is the time. If you are planning on hooking up multiple FPGA's it is highly recommended to use an externally powered USB Hub.

Step 9 is to determine if the OS recognizes your FPGA and needs to be done from the home location

8 cd (to return to home)
9 ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*

your FPGA's should show up as ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, etc. Any number is fine as long as there are as many of them as you have units.

If they do not show up here is a link to a thread about that issue. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65879.msg915045#msg915045

run BFGMiner the usual way.(sudo ./bfgminer from the bfgminer installed directory) If you do not use sudo it won't save your configuration properly when you go to settings and write config.

Editted: corrections, Stream-Lined, & Tested on Raspberry Pi, all to save you time. ENJOY!

Final Note: I have had 2 Raspberry Pi's burn out with BFL ASIC's. It seems the USB ports just can't handle the I/O. First I had crashes of the mining software, so I forced the Pi to reset itself twice daily which worked as a stop gap, but eventually they fell apart under the weight of the problem. Got a low powered amd apu and motherboard and have been running for months with it just sitting on a table, no maintenance required. At this time I would not recommend purchasing a Raspberry Pi as a control device for ASIC's.

For normal usage, Debian has replaced apt-get with aptitude a few releases ago. Also, both tools can take any number of packages on the same command. So,
Note that libusb-dev is required for not just Ztex, but also X6500 FPGAs.

Steps 13-17 are all performed by the autogen.sh script, so just run that to automate it :)

You don't need to use "make install" (and I'm not sure it actually installs the bitstreams sensible) if you want to run BFGMiner from the source code directory; you can just do:

Thank you, stored in Bookmarks, I own the Rpi, just need the ASIC.

Regards

Just wanted to say this is an awesome little bit of help.

I'm not running a Pi, I'm using a DockStar, but it's very similar and it's been so long since I've installed a clean OS it really came in handy.

Some notes:

I am using ArchLinux, so most of the steps are very similar.  However, when I tried running autogen.sh, I was getting errors that were fixed by installing pkg-config (which is in the base-devel package, which I believe this is in build-essential in other distros).

Thanks a ton for putting this together for us!

Thanks for the guide, it was very helpful.  Can you tell me if you had to snip the 5V line on the USB cable from the powered USB hub to keep the power from flowing back into the Raspberry Pi?

I tried connecting a powered up to the pi but without power and the pi instantly reset, but is fine after booting with it connected. I haven't tried running it powered yet as I've heard bad things about that.

I'm using a powered USB hub and the only thing I noticed is that power will flow backwards from the hub so to do a restart you give the sudo halt command to shut down the Pi. Then you disconnect the Power and unplug the USB Hub then re-plugging them in will let it boot right up. I don't believe mine will start up with the USB plugged in without the additional Power line feeding the hub. The raspberry pi was a minimalist design and wasn't made to handle much power draw by peripherals. This is the USB Hub I am using and I've had 0 issues http://www.amazon.com/10-Port-USB-2-0-Hub/dp/B00475WJEY/ref=sr_1_13?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1352091861&sr=1-13&keywords=usb+hub

Awesome stuff, thanks!

I was having trouble getting my raspberry pi to recognize my BFL's. After some fiddling and alot of reading, it came down to running: .

will this work on hackberry or other similar  alternatives?

Did you get it to work on your hackberry ?

I installed Debian Wheezy on my hackberry with cgminer 2.9.4.
cpu-mining is successfull, USB-Miner i can't test, because i'm waiting for my bASICs. :(
I hope it works fine  :(

For this do I have to designate the devices if I have multiple or will bfg miner see them and use them as needed for mining? Right now I'm planning to install an eroupter if I can get my hands on one after my coins settle and hopefully be able to run it alongside a butterfly labs asic device once I get it. I'm hoping I can run both on startup with whatever pools I want.

Both will be on a powered hub

Thanks

It should recognize them. I got a few erupters and they run just fine. From the readme:
I just ran bfgminer with "-S all" and it was just fine.

I'm hoping this will get me mining on the Pi with my ASIC.
I really appreciate the well written Guide.  Even I could follow it.
With an exception...
I got to 6 ./autogen.sh
and got back...
Getting submodules...
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

I did see the post from Phraust,
but don't understand what it means I should do.
Unfortunately, I don't speak Linux.

Someone please guide me a little.

Edit: forgot to mention - I'm using 2013-09-10-wheezy-raspbian and bfgminer-3.2.1

Skip autogen, it's not supposed to be used with zips.

Thanks Luke.
That go me a step farther.
Now I got
configure: error: Could not find HASH_ITER - please install uthash-dev 1.9.2+

tried
install uthash-dev 1.9.2+
but, of course, that didn't work.

Don'cha just hate newbies

sudo aptitude install uthash-dev

IT'S WORKING!!

Luke, you're my hero!  I wanna have your baby. Uh, wait.  Think I'll just send you some bitcoin.
Thank you
Thank you
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Thank you

Ty for the guide, it worked!!!c

I know this is an old post. But i just cant get this to work, and searching googe dosnt help me either.

at 9 ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*

i get this return

ls: cannot access /dev/ttyUSB*: No such file or directory

I'm still using bfgminer-3.2.1 and it's working just fine.
Not producing much at 30Gh/s, but still running.

For what its worth, I just placed my 16GB Gentoo Raspberry PI with 3.99.0 of bfgminer installed up on Vuze (torrent).  It compresses down to a bit over 1gb, can be unzipped and dd'ed directly to a 16gb sdhc card.

Search for "GentooPIimage080514.gz" - with luck you will find it.

but


and than

always the same and I don't know????

On my Pi is the newest Kernel!?

greets

Hey all. I am completely new to linux and pretty much asics. I picked up a pi and have 2 usb dualminer sticks that I want to run in scrypt only mode.
I have latest Raspbein OS installed.
I did the first 2 steps.
As I know I need bfgminer 4.0+ as thats the one that supports it I believe. Can anyone tell me how to proceed from here. I am connected to the pi through putty.

Suggest popping over to http://asic.usertalk.info/index.php?topic=66.0 and reading the 2nd post in that thread.  It should get you started.

Cassey
Sysop @ asic.usertalk.info

Thanks for the time being I am running the antminer u2s on the pie dualminers on pc thats always on.

I'm not sure you can mix cards of different versions like that.
IF it works, it would be using ./configure --enable-bfsb and then at runtime bfgminer -S bfsb:auto

Could we get updated instructions for the newer hardware & software?

I'm using the newer Jessie on a Pi 2 and I'm having some difficulty. For me, step 5 comes back with something about bfgminer not being a valid directory. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but this learning process has been frustrating. Could somebody help me out?

Please post the exact error message and someone will be able to help.

as far as i know   only work with ubuntu but yea it's that easy just do at a ssh command if your using ssh with ubuntu and your set .

cd /home

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-gnutls-dev libjansson-dev uthash-dev libncursesw5-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libevent-dev libmicrohttpd-dev
	

sudo git clone https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer.git

cd /bfgminer

sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo chmod +x ./configure  
sudo ./configure CFLAGS="-O2" --enable-scrypt --enable-broad-udevrules
or use 
sudo ./configure  (defaults are used)
make
sudo ldconfig
lsusb
sudo chmod 777 bfgminer

sudo ./bfgminer --version
 
sudo bfgminer or sudo ./bfgminer or sudo /bfgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://your pool:port -u user id  -p x  your miners setting. 

or for sha256 coin mining aka btc

sudo bfgminer or sudo ./bfgminer or sudo /bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://your pool:port -u user id  -p x  your miners setting.

hi, I have a pi-2 and the newest bfgminer, + the pi is recognizing my usb hub, but its not
recognizing the avalon-2 sticks.

any suggestions?

i've tried many + still trying. :)

thank you

make sure if you compiled your own BFG  it has  --enable-avalon the readme says it is on by default but it might be wise to compile it on any way

in the bfg folder do a version check it tells, if the --enable-avalon driver is on .


if it is, do a hub check


lsusb  should list all the hubs plugged in to that pi .


if all that checks out try in the BFG folder


then try the miner .


beyond that

check power to hub , does the pi really support it, Ive had a few hubs not work with RPI and BFG but do with other PI type PC'c even after i did a hub check .

thank you = i'm going to go give this a try :)

looks like theres a few new commands that i see here from what i've tried so far.


thank you

What miner ? . yup  it's a MAT MINER  :).  Mining ASICs Technologies follow below


for the latest BFG to work you have to flash each board with a flasher you can only get here https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=27370.0 you have to ask

jstefanop

 to send it hell probable want to sell it , then follow https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=27370.0 his post, it tells you how to flash it.

Then follow my post here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1468120.0  it will tell you how to hook  up a AlcheMiner/MAT miner to use any PI type PC or PC you want  , they are the same miner with different names.


if the boards are all ready flashed then compile bfg like my post said, your set . why i said my post is   BFG doesn't have all the fixes pulled or  not  all the fixes jstefanop did are in the master bfg  yet once it is you can just install/compile BFG the normal way by  following this post but make sure to use this when you do compile it

mainly this it is off in BFG by default and that works with Mat miners  remember they are  the same miner AlcheMiner or MAT aka Mining ASICs Technologies .


 BFG is free, the Flasher is not, unless jstefanop gives it a way freely .The flasher is a paid for updated firmware that lets you use the free updated BFG drivers ( jstefanop did also) with those miners that fixed all  most every issue those miners had.


thanks top

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=672969.0

this link is for the latest image versions for a2 terminators by some one on the forums but it uses CGMiner with how to videos.

 BFGMINER has never supported any of the A's from Innosilicon as far as i know but if you want support you can ask Luke the Dev of BFGMINER he may say write the code your self but might do it for a fee you would have to ask him .