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Title: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: who on March 20, 2011, 10:34:08 AM
Hi
I downloaded Bitcoin for Linux, opened the file and the gui opened. But there is alway not connected when I chose Generate Coins. Under windows it is working fine, under wine in Linux also.
Hope you can help me :)
thanks in advantage


Title: Re: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: theymos on March 20, 2011, 10:55:59 AM
Maybe iptables is blocking outgoing Bitcoin traffic.


Title: Re: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: who on March 20, 2011, 12:32:41 PM
however, after a while it connected

but know I want to now how can i use my gpu for bitcoin?
i have a cuda graphcis card and an actuall nvidia driver for the card


Title: Re: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: TenthReality on March 20, 2011, 01:02:28 PM
Use a search engine to do a little bit of research, there are plenty of guides for this.


Title: Re: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: dunbrokin on April 07, 2011, 10:37:59 PM
I have the same problem....I am behind a NAT router.....do I need to open port 8333....is that the solution?


Title: Re: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: MoonShadow on April 07, 2011, 10:44:33 PM
Hi
I downloaded Bitcoin for Linux, opened the file and the gui opened. But there is alway not connected when I chose Generate Coins.

What does it do when you are not trying to generate coins?  Do you show any connections?


Title: Re: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: dunbrokin on April 08, 2011, 05:13:08 AM
The answer is that it does fire up after a while...no need to do anything.


Title: Re: Bitcoin not connected Linux
Post by: idev on April 09, 2011, 10:00:45 AM
I have the same problem....I am behind a NAT router.....do I need to open port 8333....is that the solution?


Im also having the same problem on my mac,
although when i first installed it yesterday it was working fine,
and today i woke up to find it not connected, and now it does not connect at all  >:(