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1  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: January 12, 2016, 02:06:13 PM
So you just plug the existing usb cord coming up from the power usb hub, to the Female end and the male ends into the computer?
2  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: January 11, 2016, 09:46:55 PM
Well, 5 on a hub may work, but I think Y cables are a must if ports are strictly limited to 500/900mA.

Unless he has a fancy hub that just doesn't care in this case, maybe the power supply is undersized.

I run 3@330Mhs on a 7 ports USB3 hub with Y cables.
The hub has a 12V-2.4A PS.
Could you link me to a reliable Y cable please?
Thanks zou!
3  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: January 10, 2016, 04:47:12 PM
I'm back with another issue. Just bought 4 more miners and I plugged them all up one by one. Here is the issue I'm getting now. Two of them constantly go in and out of ZOMBIE status. What may be the problem? Thanks!

4  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: December 30, 2015, 12:49:18 PM
Hey guys. So I'm back with a little issue. So, after getting my 3 miners in, ingot them all running on a 125hertz frequency. Well after toying with it, I slowly ramped up the frequency to 150. But for some reason I'll get 2 of them running, but the 3rd one never mines. Soni t ll pick up the stick in cgminer, but sit at 0. It just gives me an USB_SUCCESS error code. It'll retry it, and then it'll zombie out. But the miners power light is on, just not the process light. Could it be having too much coming out of the power outlet I'm using? I have 2 computers, 2 monitors, and the powered usb hub coming out of it.
5  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: December 26, 2015, 04:00:15 AM
One thing more we'd need to know, what cgminer version you are using and what compile flags you used (--enable-icarus, --enable-gekko, etc).

I think I used just the 'enable gekko' command. I ran through the thorough instructions that Novak gave on the first page of this thread. I'll quote everything he posted :

Here's what you'd do to get cgminer on linux going:
1. Open a terminal.

2. wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz            

3. tar -xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz

This extracts the files. which are compressed (like a zip file for linux)

4. cd cgminer-gekko
 
Enters the cgminer-gekko folder you just extracted.

5. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool

You need to install the dependencies for cgminer.

6. ./autogen.sh

This will generate a configure script for you which will set up compiling for your system.

7. ./configure --enable-gekko

This will configure the build.  This is the most likely place to have anything go wrong, if it does, let me know exactly what's up.  Odds are it would be some package that you should have installed.

8. make

Performs the build.  If you get an error there- again, let me know details.


The steps from around the first page was missing a few things (unless novak edited them in).

From updated steps posted later on:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg12468048#msg12468048

First things first, open terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade   (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter.

After it updates,  sudo reboot  (to be sure updates are active).

Then in terminal window again

sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev (you may get a message saying you need other package's installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above)

Again y/n hit y enter
After it's done,

wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz

tar xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz

cd cgminer-gekko

./autogen.sh

./configure --enable-gekko --disable-libcurl    (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build)

sudo make install   (you don't have to do the install)

While still in the cgminer-gekko dir,

sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   (if it does not copy,  sudo su enter then  cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   )

sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami        (whoami= your user name you setup)

sudo reboot

After it restarts open terminal

cd cgminer-gekko

sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX

These should get you up and running.
You, my friend, are a saint. Thank you so much.  So one more question. I have two of them plugged in right now. If I were to shutdown the mining, and plugged in another, would i need to change any of my info again? or just retype the cgminer server and username info and start it right up?
6  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: December 25, 2015, 04:44:37 AM
One thing more we'd need to know, what cgminer version you are using and what compile flags you used (--enable-icarus, --enable-gekko, etc).

I think I used just the 'enable gekko' command. I ran through the thorough instructions that Novak gave on the first page of this thread. I'll quote everything he posted :

Here's what you'd do to get cgminer on linux going:
1. Open a terminal.
2. wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz             

This downloads the file- you can save it from your browser instead, it's the same thing.

3. tar -xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz 

This extracts the files. which are compressed (like a zip file for linux)

4. cd cgminer-gekko
 
Enters the cgminer-gekko folder you just extracted.

5. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool

You need to install the dependencies for cgminer.

6. ./autogen.sh

This will generate a configure script for you which will set up compiling for your system.

7. ./configure --enable-gekko

This will configure the build.  This is the most likely place to have anything go wrong, if it does, let me know exactly what's up.  Odds are it would be some package that you should have installed.

8. make

Performs the build.  If you get an error there- again, let me know details.
7  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread on: December 24, 2015, 07:33:20 PM
Alright guys. So yes, I'm a little late into the game. But having a few issues and i'm(hopefully) trying to get some support. My software skills are pretty minimal. I recently been experimenting with Ubuntu, and super new to it. So I purchased 3 of these bad boys, and im trying to get these working. So i followed the exact setup for the terminal. Got everything setup for CGminer. It is actually searching for the Gekkoscience miners. But when I plug them up, CGminer does not detect them. I tried plugging them directly to the computer, and I have tried plugging them to a powered USB hub. Nothing. I'm hoping to get some help. Thanks guys! If you need any more info please let me know.
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