Sorry, I'm not sure what to do about that one.  My only problem was that I needed to log in and change the IP address, using the 'ifconfig' command.  It's saying it can't mount the root partition, which basically means it can't even see the operating system files in order for it to boot.

I'm not really familiar with OpenWRT, but the miner's software seems to be largely based on it, if you can't find help here, you might try a forum for that.

A friend mentioned that occasionally one of his AntMiners would randomly stop hashing, but would start right back up after restarting.  I thought it might be handy to write a script to do that automatically to minimize downtime without taxing the miner by power cycling it.  This ash script, triggered by cron, checks every 10 minutes to see how long it's been since the last work was submitted, and if it's been >10 minutes it will restart the miner and log the time in /root/watchdog.log.

Just save this as /root/watchdog.ash, make it executable, and add the job to Scheduled Tasks.


Let me know if you have any problems or improvements.

I was having a problem with my AntMiner S3+ that had become unresponsive and inaccessible after I ticked a wrong check box while trying to get fancy with the network config.  I was trying to connect the miner via WiFi, and also use it as an access point for my Raspberry Pi that's running a Gridseed, and I bridged the wrong two interfaces.  I've seen a lot of posts in this thread with suggestions on how to fix it, but they are all either incorrect, incomplete, or unclear.

First off, no amount of fiddling with the reset button did anything at all, and I tried for many hours.  Pressing the button once does nothing, holding it down for >10sec makes it restart as does double-clicking it, holding the button and then starting it up will just cause it not to boot.  Someone said to start it, wait 3 minutes, hold the button for 15 seconds, do that again, and power cycle it... which didn't work, either.

I was able to fix it by connecting to the serial debugging port on the interface board with a USB to serial adapter, and editing the /etc/config/networking file with the correct settings and rebooting.  The post that gave me the hint about the serial port was a little ambiguous on the TX/RX pinouts, so I wanted to post a pic that should be self-explanatory.  I'm using a Parallax 'Propeller Plug' that I got for about $10 when I built a Propeller on a breadboard.  The driver makes it show up as a regular COM port, and I used PuTTY under Windows to connect to it.  The pin headers are just sitting in there, the worst that might happen with a loose connection is some corrupt characters in the terminal.  The reset pin is not needed.

Hope it helps!

I didn't know all that about Mt.Gox.  Thanks for the heads up.  They seem to be listed in a lot of places as a reputable exchange... maybe that has changed.

I've only purchased through VirWox, buying SLL via PayPal, exchanging them for BTC, and withdrawing.  Is there a better way you'd recommend?  (Trying to find good info on the forum, but there's a lot to search through, and the 90sec search delay is painful).  Many of them either use questionable payment processors, or don't deal with US customers at all.

CPU mining is obviously much slower than GPU, but since my machine is always running anyway, a few extra hashes couldn't hurt.

Just a tip I thought I'd share: if you add 'start /idle /b' to the beginning of your batch file, the process will start at a lower priority, and will only use the resources that are entirely unused by other apps, as opposed to starting with the same priority as other apps you're running.  (The '/b' means run in current window and don't open a new one)

Also, you can specify how many threads minerd.exe uses, and specify one less thread than you have CPU cores, making sure there's always one core available to handle the GUI.  Do this by adding '-t 6' at the end (if you have 4 cores with hyperthreading).

Here's my batch file.  You're welcome to use this example and mine for me as long as you'd like (you know... just to get the hang of it).



I also use the 'start /idle /b' for cgminer and cudaminer, since it does use some CPU power to interface with your ASIC/GPU.  It doesn't seem to slow down the hash rate at all, and I can still play Guild Wars 2 on low settings while mining 3 different ways.

You can easily buy BTC with a credit card... I've done it twice this week.  The easiest way is to use VirWox.com, buy SLL (Second Life Lindens) with PayPal (or credit card through PayPal), exchange them for Bitcoin, and withdraw the coins.  The first few transactions you do will require them to do a manual step that has taken 1 day each time, but that's still less than Mt.Gox's 20 days to approve your account that I'm still waiting on.

What's to stop people from buying on one exchange and selling on the other over and over?

Shouldn't that equalize the price fairly quickly?

I want to get started mining as soon as possible since it's a new coin... but I don't see a download link, and I didn't find anything on Google.

http://bit.ly/1dDEo3B

I'd say you're better off using your GPU and CPU to mine LTC to trade for BTC, unless you have specialized mining hardware.  I just got a bottom of the line ASICMiner Block Erupter (Icarus) that does 333KH/sec.  It does 10x more hashing than my GTX660 for, maybe 1/5 the cost, and the i7 CPU combined.  Without an ASIC, I can pull in roughly 50x more by mining LTC than by mining BTC directly.

(I was mining DOGE for a while, while it was on the way up... got sick of all the brand new stratum servers going down constantly).