Title: Can't get a Technobit HEX16 on a Raspberry with Raspbian / Debian to work Post by: sbogovac on January 11, 2014, 03:13:05 PM Dear readers,
After a substantial amount of time on this forum (and others) I tried to get my Technobit HEX16 to work on a Raspberry. It works on a Windows machine in combination with HEXminer but I am not impressed by it's stability... Being a total newbie on Linux I followed several "tutorials" I found on the fora. The one I had the "best" result with (and being quoted by others as working) is the one described by 2GOOD [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303538.msg3371198#msg3371198] (BIG thank you for that one 2GOOD, BTW!). But after I: sudo apt-get update and I: sudo apt-get install autoconf yasm pkg-config make libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev succesfully, then I: Download the build cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz with: wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8082585/cg/cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz I extract the archive with: tar -xvf cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz But the tutorial then says to "Edit cgminer.conf - it is preconfigured for speeds 480Mhz @ 1440mV" I have no idea what to do so I type: "edit cgminer.conf" and all it says is: Warning: unknown mime-type for "cgminer.conf" -- using "application/octet-stream" Error: no "edit" mailcap rules found for type "application/octet-stream" I change directory by: cd cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1 and try again, but with the same result Assuming I need some sort of editor to do this AND assuming that the preconfigured file should be OK for now I run cgminer with: sudo ./cgminer -c ./cgminer.conf But I get this message: ./cgminer: 1: ./cgminer: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") Undeterred I continue with the tutorial (thinking maybe I should run the patch before this actually works), and I: cd Then I: apt-get install autoconf libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config yasm make AND HERE IT STOPS FOR ME WITH THE MESSAGE: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? Just to be complete, the rest of the tutorial says to: wget https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/archive/v3.6.1.tar.gz tar -xvf v3.6.1.tar.gz cd cgminer-3.6.1 wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8082585/cg/cgminer_3_6_1_rev_fe5da9672767e18116444dad18db54638936490a.patch patch < cgminer_3_6_1_rev_fe5da9672767e18116444dad18db54638936490a.patch ./autogen.sh --disable-opencl --disable-adl --enable-avalon --enable-hexminer --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus make sudo ./cgminer -n to check the HEX board is detected Could you please help me get this Technobit HEX16 on a Raspberry with a clean install of Raspbian / Debian to work? Title: Re: Can't get a Technobit HEX16 on a Raspberry with Raspbian / Debian to work Post by: sbogovac on January 14, 2014, 12:16:09 PM Problem solved!
Start the command where I get stuck with "sudo" too, et voila! Then I encountered another problem with the missing cgminer.conf file. I edited that (to include my miner-worker details) in the GUI and copied it from the directory cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1 to the directory cgminer-3.6.1 In the directory cgminer-3.6.1 i ran cgminer with: sudo ./cgminer -c ./cgminer.conf Works like a charm, even with another Butterfly labs miner connected next to the Technobit one. Enjoy! Title: Re: Can't get a Technobit HEX16 on a Raspberry with Raspbian / Debian to work Post by: sbogovac on January 14, 2014, 01:17:04 PM Oh, and you start the GUI with the command: startx
Title: Re: Can't get a Technobit HEX16 on a Raspberry with Raspbian / Debian to work Post by: sbogovac on January 20, 2014, 08:12:52 PM In the mean time, this is what worked for me, both with the Technobit as well as the Butterflylabs ASIC (apart and together):
Code: sudo apt-get update Happy hashing! |