Hi All,

I usually don't post but I am really stumped by this issue and I would appreciate any and all advice; These forums have been a great resource with helping me solve all my other mining probs.

My setup is as follows:

10 Gridseed Asic Miners
Controlled via a Rasberry Pi (B). I have tried both the Hashra and Scripta images found on other forums. Hooked to my network via the Edimax ew-7811un.
Running wicd-curses to manage network.

The problem started out of the blue. Everything was working just fine... The wifi dongle would drop the connection and it would appear like it was searching for the network (steady blinking blue light). After ssh-ing into the pi via a separate wired connection, I managed to fix the wifi connection problem by making one small change to the /etc/network/interfaces file to contain only the following:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
 
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

And removing all other info. This worked immediately, but then resulted in both Scripta and Hashra throwing this error message in the log, with miners offline:

Apr  5 06:00:07 bfgminer[2304]: Press any key to exit, or BFGMiner will try again in 15s.

Apr  5 06:00:12 MinerClass log[2013]: socket connect(127.0.0.1,4001) failed returning null

Apr  5 06:00:12 MinerClass log[2013]: socket connect(127.0.0.1,4001) failed returning null

Apr  5 06:00:17 MinerClass log[2013]: socket connect(127.0.0.1,4001) failed returning null

I tried searching for the error above, but other people only get it when they forget to specify the port at the pool URL, which I did. Also, with the same settings above, the rig mines just fine with a wired internet connection. So its some sort of error between bfgminer and relying on the wifi information in /etc/network/interfaces I think.

Any advice?!

Thanks!