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Title: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: collins6542 on March 21, 2015, 07:34:58 AM
Hey guys, I did my best to keep off forums and I have finally reached my wits end... I have purchased 2 Rockminer New R-BOX 100-110 Gh/s Miners. I am using a 08 Macbook Pro with OS x 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I have tried everything under the sun for the rockminers to detect with no luck.. I have tried specifically probing the port, using MacMiner, using BFGMiner 5.1, using CGMiner 4.3, SiLabs USB Driver Disk, I even installed homebrew, Xcode 4.2, I have tried several different pools thinking that was the issue.. everything from BAN, bitsolo, to Bitminter. I am just at wits end on what I can do to fix this... any ideas? (Please forgive my typing/spelling ive been sitting in front of this computer for hours and it is 0230 am now...

I thank you again guys!

- One grateful n00b


Title: Re: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: collins6542 on March 21, 2015, 08:00:07 AM
Hey guys, I did my best to keep off forums and I have finally reached my wits end... I have purchased 2 Rockminer New R-BOX 100-110 Gh/s Miners. I am using a 08 Macbook Pro with OS x 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I have tried everything under the sun for the rockminers to detect with no luck.. I have tried specifically probing the port, using MacMiner, using BFGMiner 5.1, using CGMiner 4.3, SiLabs USB Driver Disk, I even installed homebrew, Xcode 4.2, I have tried several different pools thinking that was the issue.. everything from BAN, bitsolo, to Bitminter. I am just at wits end on what I can do to fix this... any ideas? (Please forgive my typing/spelling ive been sitting in front of this computer for hours and it is 0230 am now...

I thank you again guys!

- One grateful n00b
To add to this I've ran the search script with still nothing -S cd/cu.USBtoUART   I've also tried throwing manual flags such as -S rockminer:all -d?


Title: Re: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: Amph on March 21, 2015, 08:14:39 AM
if you really tried everything they could be simply defective, or your macbook usb port are the problem, can you change it with another pc/notebook to try it?


Title: Re: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: -ck on March 21, 2015, 09:26:04 AM
using CGMiner 4.3,
That's ancient and the rockminer support didn't even exist back then. Why? Grab the latest cgminer.


Title: Re: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: notlist3d on March 21, 2015, 12:44:00 PM
You could always use bootcamp and install windows or linux to try them with.   I am just guessing, but I doubt mac was that popular of a OS for them.


Title: Re: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: collins6542 on March 21, 2015, 07:33:09 PM
if you really tried everything they could be simply defective, or your macbook usb port are the problem, can you change it with another pc/notebook to try it?

Unfortunately not. I have some U1 miners that i have tried and they work.. It is just the Rockminers... the two i purchased are brand new unopened upon arrival.


Title: Re: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: notlist3d on March 21, 2015, 07:38:10 PM
if you really tried everything they could be simply defective, or your macbook usb port are the problem, can you change it with another pc/notebook to try it?

Unfortunately not. I have some U1 miners that i have tried and they work.. It is just the Rockminers... the two i purchased are brand new unopened upon arrival.

Did you try another OS such as linux or windows? I think those will be quite a bit more popular as far as running them.  And you will find more documentation.


Title: Re: OK everyone... ready for the most asked question? Im at wits end
Post by: bitsolutions on March 22, 2015, 07:36:18 AM
You should follow these (http://blog.nwoolls.com/2013/04/24/bitcoin-mining-on-mac-os-x-cgminer-bfgminer/) instructions for homebrew cgminer on osx.