Hello everyone!

I received my first miner today, a GekkoScience USB miner. Long story short, after spending the entire day trying to begin mining, I think I'm pretty lost.

I downloaded cgminer (the full package) from Spaceman, which i believe is version 4.3.3

I created a bitcoin.conf plain text file as follows:
server=1
rpcuser=Michael
rpcpassword= xxxx
rpctimeout=30
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=8332

I could not find any wallets that could run on my current software, Mac OS X 10.6.8, so I downloaded Mycelium on my phone, and got the wallet address

As luck would have it, I cannot download Bitcoin Core which happens to require OS X 10.7+, so I downloaded bitcoin 0.10.1 from the main Bitcoin site

I've run cgminer and when the command line prompt came up, I entered the following:
-o http://127.0.0.1:8332 -u Michael -p xxxx --btc-address xxxx

Then I'll get some errors saying things such as "waiting for USB hot plug", "no device detected", "pool 0 seems to be slow or down"

I suppose what I'm trying to do here is solo mine. I realize that's not the best course of action, but I'd like to give it a shot.

If anyone can offer any insight, I'd sincerely appreciate it.