Good news everyone! Stable firmware for LightningAsic controllers is underway, it should be ready for public in the coming week and it will be possible to upgrade (from v1, v2, v2.1..) by uploading it to the upload page. The firmware .bin will be released for public, but it is compatible only with LightningAsic controllers. Upgrading from factory Tp-link 703N will not work and it might brick your Tp-link, so don't even try! It has some awesome features: - Stripped, custom compiled OpenWrt (controller's OS) image optimized for size and speed
- Stability is heavily emphasized and guaranteed! No more random reboots or crashes
- Custom compiled cpuminer OC, frequency selectable up to 1200 MHz. We have tested it for 48 hours straight at 950 MHz (405 Kh/s) and without hardware errors! (see #1)
- Advanced miner monitoring and management
- Option to auto power cycle miners when one of the miners is stuck, this is done software wise and it has the same effect as unplugging, and plugging in the USB cable! (see #2)
- Up to 10 miners per controller, replacing the 32MB RAM chip with 64MB will double that figure
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note #1: depends on miner hardware note #2: this will only work if the USB/hub is powered by the controller, you must not supply power to the USB hub. BTC or dual mining is removed in the firmware for a multitude of reasons, BTC mining on GC3355 is unstable and wasteful. If this doesn't want to make you pull out the LA controller out of the trash, I don't know what will... For questions or feature requests, please PM me, not Jack. Donations (1AMsjqzXQpRunxUmtn3xzQ5cMdhV7fmet2) are gladly accepted, and will be put towards improving the firmware even more.1.Please don't remove dual mining from the fw or let it be as an option!. Some of us enjoy more or less expensive electricity- and would like to ROI faster. 2. I'm not so sure if 64Mb of RAM will do the trick for 10+ but I would like to see it tested. 3.Back-up pool option is a MUST and I don't see that on your list. Thanks! Poor power efficiency is only part of the reason why it is removed, if you want to dual mine stick to the current firmware. We will be testing with 20+ miners on 64 MB controller, if proven stable, we will confirm this claim Backup pools will be added |
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Has anyone been running their GridSeed Farm 24/7 stably WITHOUT ANY INTERVENTION WHATSOEVER? IF so, please tell me what your configuration is so WE can all set these things and not have to worry about this elusive little bug!!!? Has anyone come up with a macro to take care of detecting the hault then restarting each miner in cpuminer? Are you using CPUMiner or BFGMiner? I use the current BFGMiner pre-release with GridSeed support running for days without issue (on Windows). """""cpuminer""""" it's in my post.. so what? What hardware are you using? Are you using direct USB to PC or USB via controller? anyway.... jeez man calm down... a few points here... 1. Your'e posting in the BFGMiner thread about CPUMiner... shouldn't expect help, but people here are trying to help you anyway. 2. You're being pretty rude to nwoolls who's the guy who coded Gridseed support in BFGMiner. If anyone can help you, he can... show some respect and maybe he can help. 3. Why don't you try the BFGMiner version with Gridseed support that nwoolls made... it could help you with your stability issues and get rid of some of your obvious stress. 4. How about get a beer, calm down, and then try writing a post that doesn't bite every hand that tries to help you. +1 - 1000 non-sequitur gibberish! BFGMiner with Gridseed support is pretty stable for me, why not use it instead of CPUMiner, and stop making a fool of yourself... ? |
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Good news everyone! Stable firmware for LightningAsic controllers is underway, it should be ready for public in the coming week and it will be possible to upgrade (from v1, v2, v2.1..) by uploading it to the upload page. The firmware .bin will be released for public, but it is compatible only with LightningAsic controllers. Upgrading from factory Tp-link 703N will not work and it might brick your Tp-link, so don't even try! It has some awesome features: - Stripped, custom compiled OpenWrt (controller's OS) image optimized for size and speed
- Stability is heavily emphasized and guaranteed! No more random reboots or crashes
- Custom compiled cpuminer OC, frequency selectable up to 1200 MHz. We have tested it for 48 hours straight at 950 MHz (405 Kh/s) and without hardware errors! (see #1)
- Advanced miner monitoring and management
- Option to auto power cycle miners when one of the miners is stuck, this is done software wise and it has the same effect as unplugging, and plugging in the USB cable! (see #2)
- Up to 10 miners per controller, replacing the 32MB RAM chip with 64MB will double that figure
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note #1: depends on miner hardware note #2: this will only work if the USB/hub is powered by the controller, you must not supply power to the USB hub. BTC or dual mining is removed in the firmware for a multitude of reasons, BTC mining on GC3355 is unstable and wasteful. If this doesn't want to make you pull out the LA controller out of the trash, I don't know what will... For questions or feature requests, please PM me, not Jack. Donations (1AMsjqzXQpRunxUmtn3xzQ5cMdhV7fmet2) are gladly accepted, and will be put towards improving the firmware even more. |
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Good news everyone! Stable firmware for LightningAsic controllers is underway, it should be ready for public in the coming week and it will be possible to upgrade (from v1, v2, v2.1..) by uploading it to the upload page. The firmware .bin will be released for public, but it is compatible only with LightningAsic controllers. Upgrading from factory Tp-link 703N will not work and it might brick your Tp-link, so don't even try! It has some awesome features: - Stripped, custom compiled OpenWrt (controller's OS) image optimized for size and speed
- Stability is heavily emphasized and guaranteed! No more random reboots or crashes
- Custom compiled cpuminer OC, frequency selectable up to 1200 MHz. We have tested it for 48 hours straight at 950 MHz (405 Kh/s) and without hardware errors! (see #1)
- Advanced miner monitoring and management
- Option to auto power cycle miners when one of the miners is stuck, this is done software wise and it has the same effect as unplugging, and plugging in the USB cable! (see #2)
- Up to 10 miners per controller, replacing the 32MB RAM chip with 64MB will double that figure
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note #1: depends on miner hardware note #2: this will only work if the USB/hub is powered by the controller, you must not supply power to the USB hub. BTC or dual mining is removed in the firmware for a multitude of reasons, BTC mining on GC3355 is unstable and wasteful. If this doesn't want to make you pull out the LA controller out of the trash, I don't know what will... For questions or feature requests, please PM me, not Jack. Donations (1AMsjqzXQpRunxUmtn3xzQ5cMdhV7fmet2) are gladly accepted, and will be put towards improving the firmware even more. |
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Good news everyone! Stable firmware for LightningAsic controllers is underway, it should be ready for public in the coming week and it will be possible to upgrade (from v1, v2, v2.1..) by uploading it to the upload page. The firmware .bin will be released for public, but it is compatible only with LightningAsic controllers. Upgrading from factory Tp-link 703N will not work and it might brick your Tp-link, so don't even try! It has some awesome features: - Stripped, custom compiled OpenWrt (controller's OS) image optimized for size and speed
- Stability is heavily emphasized and guaranteed! No more random reboots or crashes
- Custom compiled cpuminer OC, frequency selectable up to 1200 MHz. We have tested it for 48 hours straight at 950 MHz (405 Kh/s) and without hardware errors! (see #1)
- Advanced miner monitoring and management
- Option to auto power cycle miners when one of the miners is stuck, this is done software wise and it has the same effect as unplugging, and plugging in the USB cable! (see #2)
- Up to 10 miners per controller, replacing the 32MB RAM chip with 64MB will double that figure
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note #1: depends on miner hardware note #2: this will only work if the USB/hub is powered by the controller, you must not supply power to the USB hub. BTC or dual mining is removed in the firmware for a multitude of reasons, BTC mining on GC3355 is unstable and wasteful. If this doesn't want to make you pull out the LA controller out of the trash, I don't know what will... For questions or feature requests, please PM me, not Jack. Donations (1AMsjqzXQpRunxUmtn3xzQ5cMdhV7fmet2) are gladly accepted, and will be put towards improving the firmware even more. |
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Bounty unclaimed still! Who has the courage to fix this?
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for people using raspberry pi's and cgminer... Do you guys get lower hashrate poolside, then what it shows on the cgminer dash? Because with the TPLinks, i get 3500-3700kh/s on 10 units @850 but with cgminer on the Pi, I get 1600-2500 kh/s POOLSIDE, but the cgminer shows the same hashrate as what i am suppose to be getting
It's weird, but I also have 4 plugged into a different pi, same exact config, but it shows proper hash rate pool side and on cgminer.. I'm thinking either the Hubs or something is not fast enough to handle the load, i dont know
Any ideas?
Danny
The hashrate cgminer displays is nothing like your 'actual' hashrate, by far. If you aren't accepting any shares, the hashrate will remain the same. You have to look at the accepted difficulty and time running. Lightningasic dashboard displays hashrate calculated in that manner, or how pools would calculate it. |
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So stepped things up dual mining SHA and Scypt to 800Mhz, and I am getting 6.4GH/s and 340Mh/s avg per gridseed, they get mildly warm but nothing that i would be concerned about.
Anyone try dual mining under windows at 850Mhz yet, I dont want to push them too far when mining sha alongside scrypt as the sha asics can get fairly warm.
850 is about the safe limit for these in dual mode, anything above that might be too hot for the chip. |
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I'm having some big issues with my Gridseed 5 chip miner. The issues are: 1.When I used the official miner (CPUMiner one I think),no matter how many times it shows 'Dispatching new work...' I never see any shares submitted to the pools I use (no matter which pool I use and with their corrent URLs,clevermining.com,multipool.us and coinshift.com) so I gave up ever hoping I'd get the full 400+Kh/s as promised from my miner so I changed to CGminer 3.72 which does get shares submitted but I get much less than half of the total hashpower/coins I'm supposed to have mined on all the pools I've used. 2.CGminer often says accepted yet I never see the shares in my pool even though my internet connections ok and plugged in ok via the USB port. I've tried everything I know of to remedy this but to no avail and am pretty frustrated now since there's no improvement and the instructions are even harder to understand than why I'm having issues in the first place. If someone can just help me get back on track,I'd really apreciate this as I didn't spend nearly £300 for a miner that only performs at 50% or less of it's capacity (paperwight).Thanks  First, you're not going to get a stable 400k hash out of a gridseed. You'd need to be running at 950 to do that, and you'd be getting a number of HW errors if you did. I've been running pretty stable at 900 with a couple of HW errors but this gives about 380k. Most people run it at 850 which is around 360k. This is what I use for cgminer: cgminer.exe --scrypt -o yourpooladdress -u username -p password --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=900,chips=5 --hotplug 0 If you get too many errors, change 900 to 850. With cgminer, you'll see a low WU. Ignore it (it's incorrect). If cgminer is showing a correct "A" count (depicted by A: in the output) but you're not seeing it on your pool, be sure you have the correct wallet address. A number of pools gladly accept "donations" from people with incorrect addresses. If none of this applies to you, post sample output from cgminer so we can see what's going on. Anything above 850 Mhz performs worse, the hashrate cgminer displays is nothing like your 'actual' hashrate. |
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Did u Include dependency for usb device. libudev dev library using (libudev-dev) also u need to run as root<administrator> or make yourself a member of plugdev group using (sudo usermod -G plugdev -a 'whoami' ) if your distribution does not have plugdevgroup, create using (sudo groupadd plugdev) hope this helps. 1BCn2eMv2NaX3JLYpMpUDWrgS4hsTxDwkb Thanks for response, yes and yes. |
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The problem is the usbutils.c.
I tried to compile and same error ( HW error )
Also compiled Gridseed official cgminer for SHA and woring well without any HW problem.
You may be right on this, when comparing a working cgminer, I get a different errors in debug mode. Do you know what's wrong with usbutils and how to fix it? |
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Giving out 0.3BTC to the first person to help to make it work for mips-openwrt-linux target. Scrypt only. Repo: https://github.com/dtbartle/cgminer-gc3355Cross compiled it and I keep getting invalid nonce/HW error, hint: usbutils endianness. Edit: Bounty increased to 0.3BTC! Hurry folks! |
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Show us the working SHA256 prototype core, oh wait...
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Couldn't find info in that thread but I did find something that may work elsewhere. I'll try to rip my v2 firmware tonight and upload it for the masses. I tried but I couldn't get the controller into failsafe mode. I tried every which way for both versions of the tplink. not sure if it's possible to remove failsafe mode from the firmware or not. Failsafe mode is disabled in v2 firmware. |
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Can anyone steer me in the right direction? I was only able to set up 5 out of my 10 miners from Lightingasic because one of the power supplies were bad. The other 5 according to the LightingAsic dashboard, at 850 frequency, the miners are averaging 1700 khash/s, under status they are all running. But under the accepted section I get anywhere from one unit to four units that read 0% accepted. After about two hours the system log says, Please remove power, one or more miners are hanging. Then restarts but I am never able to get all the units to start accepting blocks. And according to my pool I have only earned .1099 Ltc in just under 24 hours.What I would like to know is if this is normal for now or are there some adjustments I can make to get all my miners to accept work?
The 0% is actually the reject rate. |
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According to this review, the 5-chip Gridseed Miner pulls almost 60W mining Litecoin and only does around 350KH/s... Is there something I am missing? Why are people spending $300 on this ASIC, when a ($110-150) Radeon 7850 has equivalent specs and about the same hashrate (ie 350-380 KH/s)?? Try reading their updated post about a fixed cpuminer. Try reading the official guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494625.0 325 kh/s at 10W is way better to host for heat and power than 250Kh/s @ 10-20x the power and heat. Just because you changed your joke to a somewhat real hosting share program, don't start lying about stats. Gridseed is doing 300 khs at 50-60 watts these days. They claimed 10 watts, but none of the reviews show that low power use. Even a $200 ($230 now) R9-270 will do 450khs at 150 watts. Hardly 10-20x the power. No. You are wrong. LOL. I accept. I am wrong. I bow to your powers oh supreme one Not directed at you..... |
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According to this review, the 5-chip Gridseed Miner pulls almost 60W mining Litecoin and only does around 350KH/s... Is there something I am missing? Why are people spending $300 on this ASIC, when a ($110-150) Radeon 7850 has equivalent specs and about the same hashrate (ie 350-380 KH/s)?? Try reading their updated post about a fixed cpuminer. Try reading the official guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494625.0 325 kh/s at 10W is way better to host for heat and power than 250Kh/s @ 10-20x the power and heat. Just because you changed your joke to a somewhat real hosting share program, don't start lying about stats. Gridseed is doing 300 khs at 50-60 watts these days. They claimed 10 watts, but none of the reviews show that low power use. Even a $200 ($230 now) R9-270 will do 450khs at 150 watts. Hardly 10-20x the power. No. You are wrong. |
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Just try connecting 5 miners and see for yourself.
What hash rates do you get with 5 miners? I would buy another controller if it made a material difference. Ok, going to run 5 miners overnight. Let's see if they can average more than 1.7MHs. Half of what I would get compared to 10 miners, running on Wiibox controller which has 64MB to play with. |
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