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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread on: February 22, 2018, 07:07:22 PM
That is the bfgminer software ... you need to set up a driver first as well.
For Linux, you don't need to install a separate driver, right? It's supposed to be included in the kernel.

Yeah the driver is already included in the kernel Smiley

After much thread searching and lurking I found that the Rpi USB is crap, and that it hates anything above USB2 (even hates some USB2) and a fix is to force the Rpi to only use USB1 by adding “dwc_otg.speed=1” to “cmdline.txt”.

After adding this (running 4 MLD on a orico 10 port USB3 hub with Rpi3) everything seems to be working fine Cheesy I can now go 700+ and so far seems stable, will post back later once it’s had a good run to confirm

Hopefully this will help others having the same problem on a pi

This thread pointed me in the right direction:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=843788.0



This seems to have solved it, it’s been more than 16 hours now and it’s still up and running, much more stable and no drop in hash rate (other than expected minor fluctuations) Cheesy
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread on: February 22, 2018, 02:38:42 AM
That is the bfgminer software ... you need to set up a driver first as well.
For Linux, you don't need to install a separate driver, right? It's supposed to be included in the kernel.

Yeah the driver is already included in the kernel Smiley

After much thread searching and lurking I found that the Rpi USB is crap, and that it hates anything above USB2 (even hates some USB2) and a fix is to force the Rpi to only use USB1 by adding “dwc_otg.speed=1” to “cmdline.txt”.

After adding this (running 4 MLD on a orico 10 port USB3 hub with Rpi3) everything seems to be working fine Cheesy I can now go 700+ and so far seems stable, will post back later once it’s had a good run to confirm

Hopefully this will help others having the same problem on a pi

This thread pointed me in the right direction:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=843788.0

3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread on: February 22, 2018, 01:36:26 AM
Is there a way to enable the automatic restart in the pi/arm version of the miner? Running four MLDs on a pi and eventually one MLD will declare “SICK” and “Idle” and dropping hash rate, works fine on windows and restarts the MLD but the pi version doesn’t seem to restart the MLD

Also, using anything above 600 on the pi is very unstable (sometimes MLDs fail to start or drop hashrate quickly) however running on windows on my laptop everything is fine using 700+, could it be because the pi is USB2 and the hub I am using is USB3?




Do you have the bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2-beta2 driver?
some hubs are not compatible with pi you can search here to find what others have.
I have TP-LINK UH720 is about 50w and it works fine on 796mhz with 0.5% HW about 4.5mhz with stock clock 0.75v 2 miners running on rasbian stretch.


I downloaded bfgminer_5.4.2-futurebit2_linux_armv6.tar.gz from github which I assume has the correct driver?
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread on: February 21, 2018, 11:52:37 PM
Is there a way to enable the automatic restart in the pi/arm version of the miner? Running four MLDs on a pi and eventually one MLD will declare “SICK” and “Idle” and dropping hash rate, works fine on windows and restarts the MLD but the pi version doesn’t seem to restart the MLD

Also, using anything above 600 on the pi is very unstable (sometimes MLDs fail to start or drop hashrate quickly) however running on windows on my laptop everything is fine using 700+, could it be because the pi is USB2 and the hub I am using is USB3?


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