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assembled my pi

i have a rev b

4 usable dlink h7 hubs. currently have 18 usb miners spread across 3

a wifi dongle

and minepeon


cannot for the life of me get the miner to even probe

advice?

are you using Cgminer or bfgminer? Can you SSH into your minepeon and view the miner software status? Does the miner software recognize the devices?

I have had a lot of problems trying to get my wifi dongle running with minepeon....try plugging the network cable in directly.

I ended up not getting my wifi running in minepeon and I have no trouble with Raspbian etc. with the same dongle.

Try sudo wicd-curses that will bring up the wifi menu. After that is done and working type sudo ntpd -s to correct the time. After that it should work fine.

Here is a good minepeon guide.
http://www.raspians.com/full-guide-to-minepeon/

Also what model wifi dongle is it?

Thanks, I will try this also.

I believe I fooled around with wicd-curses but got nowhere but you inspired me to get this done before my KNC arrives.

Not all wifi dongles work with the RasPi. I've had good success with this unit:  http://www.adafruit.com/products/814 (http://www.adafruit.com/products/814). I'm running 15 Block Erupters on a RasPi with this dongle. I'm assuming that your wifi dongle is on one of the hubs, not on one of the RasPi USB ports. Some dongles draw more power than the RasPi ports can provide. Also, six Block Erupters will use all of the power on a D-Link H7 hub, so your keyboard and wifi dongle would need to go on your 4th hub.

The easy way is to use a wifi bridge or game adapter that you connect with an ethernet cable to the RasPi ethernet port. If you can get the bridge configured correctly (which you can do on a PC), then it's just about guaranteed to work with the RasPi. This also saves a precious USB port.

-R8

If you follow this guide you will be mining in no time..
http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-a ssembly


The Dlink dub-h7 Hubs are a good choice but only plug 5 erupters into them else it wont work correctly.

Wifi needs the occasional reboot of router, need handshake,  encryption/decryption renewal of network certificates. You are not walking around with you miner at home. Getting blocks is a race so why make your chances worse by using wifi?

Some wifi dongles work with the inbuilt drivers in the kernel, others don't, but a lot, if not most dongles work out of the box.

is there anything better? a 10 port option?

not for the Pi. but you can connect more than one dlink-dub-h7 to it.

ok its functioning..but its crashing after an hr or so... is it the OS, SD card or what

running minepeon on a kingston sdhc 4 gb

6 is okay on mine, and fits with the power supply, 3A = 6 * 500 ma

Anytime one can use a hardwired connection less than 200 feet or so that's the way to go.  Unless you have rodents chewing up wires, of course.

The idea with minepeon is that it is a 'load and go' mining solution, both linux, required packages and mining software all in one.  But the author takes 20% for providing this. 

I don't think it's that complicated to use arch linux or debian and build the packages for cgminer or bfgminer.  Of course, anyone could upload a working copy of such a thing it'd be less than 1gb.

you can't have your pi and eat it  :D

Spendulus,

Where do you get the 20% figure from? The default minepeon configuration mines for 15 minutes per day for the author as a donation. If you run your miner for 24 hours/day, that works out to about 1%. You can change the number of donation minutes through the minepeon web interface.

-R8

I was having frequent crashes with a wifi adapter that seemed stable on Rasbian - after one crash the adapter stopped being recognized.  I haven't bothered to test it anywhere else as the Pi sits right on top of the gigE switch in my office so it's not like I actually needed the wifi.  Ever since pulling the adapter I'm seeing multi-day uptime's, it still crashes on occasion, but on the order of once a week instead of 6 times a day.  I'm also running the Minepeon 0.2.3a image currently.

Are you using a screen USB screen with it? If not you should go with 0.2.2(stable) or 0.2.3(less stable) 0.2.3a is not very stable as it has the screen code added to it.

I also have a RaPi with 1 D-Link 7 Port Hub running.

BUT, I have PIckaxe installed. And it is up for 8+ Day's now without any Problem!
https://github.com/stronginthearm/PIckaxe

You might wanna get it a try ...

Good to know, it's stable enough for now.  I'll keep that in mind when it starts annoying me again :)