With difficulty the way it is, it really doesn't make any odds.  5% extra useless is still useless...

"In memorandum of Pierce and Paul" perhaps?

To be fair, he can't get it working on a PC, and you're suggesting he uses a Pi?  You really are putting the cart before the horse with that suggestion.

What you're proposing is like teaching your 3 year old kid to ride a bicycle by putting them on the back of a Honda Fireblade.  He needs the pink bicycle with the training wheels.

As poster above says, try -S erupter:all - the old Icarus options are depreciated, and not necessarily optimal.

Eligius has proven to pay out the same as BTCGuild for me.  It's a bit more available, too, as BTCGuild tends to get DDoS more than Eligius.

I also use EMC (DGM) and it works out very similar.

It's a Celeron, but it's still a dual core Sandy Bridge running at 1.1GHz.  It's as quick as an old Core2Duo machine and uses about a 10th of the power.  They're even pretty decent as a workstation, if you've got enough memory and a fast HDD (I used to use this machine as the workstation in my den).

Why not run p2pool?  It interfaces with bitcoind.  Runs OK on a Celeron 847 with 4GB RAM and a 30GB SSD, though I am only pushing 30GH through it.

I use a http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-kit-dccp847dye.html - it runs BFGMiner and p2pool.  Uses around 10-20W.  I've got 11 Block Erupters, 2 Blades running through it, and I've got 2 BlueFuzzies and 2 Jalapenos ordered.  Running Windows 7 x86.

Sometimes I run the Block Erupters on a TPLink 703N running OpenWRT, and it uses about 0.5W.  It doesn't do the proxy for the blades, though, and certainly won't run p2pool.

It's stable enough.  I didn't think it was difficult, a few hours did it.  I did have to run the filesystem on a USB stick, because there's very little space on the 703N after you get OpenWRT on there.

I only used the web GUI for setting stuff like the IP address.  I ran BFGMiner via SSH.

You made a big mistake.  You should have called yourself 'Emperor Haribo the VII', then the FPGA factories would be fighting to bribe you.

Guess who runs the mining hardware shop on Eligius?   

By whom?  Superman? Dick Tracy? The Internet Police? 

Why would anyone send BTC26,000 without checking they had the address right?  It's basically putting a banker's draft for $3.25million in an envelope and not sealing the back.  

Edit: NM, retard using commas instead of decimal points. 

BTCGuild is dead due to DDoS, so I'm guessing a lot of the high-power folks have a P2Pool set up as backup.

Edit: It seems slush's, 50BTC and a few other big pools are being nerfed by the big DDoS bat today.

If the hub takes in 12v, then it's converting it to 5v internally.  Chances are, the 12v to 5v conversion in the hubs is more stable than just pumping 5v in from a cheap external brick.

I use a TekNet and an Anker hub - both take in 12v, and I'm running both off a PC PSU.

So what happens if you let the blade go out to the internet to a getwork pool?  Try it on Eligius or EMC, both have stable, solid getwork hosts. 

Also check the voltage to your Blades.  Mine were unstable until I cranked up the voltage by 0.05v to each lane over what I thought should have been stable.

Congrats. 

Do you have a question?  All I see is 3 statements.

No, they aren't.

Yes, it's very possible.  I'm running BFGMiner on an Atheros based TPLink 703N.  Details of setting it up are in the README.OPENWRT file on Luke-Jr's Github.