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So I have a 5 giga hash butterfly labs miner device which when it came out used easy miner.  I imagine since the company is now defunct the software is getting dated and there are better options out there.  Does anyone have any recommendations on software to use for it?  If not does anyone have a link to the latest version of the software I saw a version on cnet but it didn't specify the version.

5Ghs? No point mining with that it would earn you more if you sold it as a paperweight/doorstop. I hope you didn't pay too much for it. You need something in the Ths range of mining power to even start thinking about earning anything nowadays.

Does it use USB? Sounds like a smaller version of the lil 10GHs cubes I have. Never could get them to work with Easy Miner nor CGminer. But - pick up a version of BFGminer from around their time. The Driver for most/all BFL miners is built in. Was painless to run my 2 cubes from Feb through Nov 2014 with it.

Nowadays that speed is only good for lottery solo mining.

The hardware is more defunct than the company,
You could try solo mining, if you have free power, otherwise, it makes an okay doorstop.

It is connected via usb yep and has an ac adapter.  I believe they called it the jalapeno.  Works just fine with easy miner and always has but its getting time for my yearly redo of the computer and don't have a back up of the easy miner software installer.  So figured it was worth seeing if there was better software for it since the company is defunct.  I know its a little dated but I keep it running mainly because it doesn't cost me anything to run it since my home is passive solar so the power cost is negligible.  Unfortunately I got it when it first came out with a delay so paid more than I should have given the course of events.

A gui interface would be preferred if possible.  Any suggestions?

BFG is only command line but was painless to find the miners and set the pools info. At least back then CG was utterly confusing.... Just look for versions from around early-late 2014 as they should have the BFL drives active in them. Later versions you may have to select/compile to have them available.

I have the FTDI drivers installed will the BFG use those drivers or do I have to do something special?

Been almost 3 years since I've ran my BFL cubes so is best to move your questions to the mining >software thread. This is the start of BFG miner part. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=877081.msg9686533#msg9686533
Considering FTDI is the company that created the original USB/UART chip and standard (which everyone promptly started counterfeiting) I'd think that would do fine.