Problem solved!

Start the command where I get stuck with "sudo" too, et voila!

Then I encountered another problem with the missing cgminer.conf file.

I edited that (to include my miner-worker details) in the GUI and copied it from the directory cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1 to the directory cgminer-3.6.1

In the directory cgminer-3.6.1 i ran cgminer with: sudo ./cgminer -c ./cgminer.conf

Works like a charm, even with another Butterfly labs miner connected next to the Technobit one.

Enjoy!

Cool, thank you for taking the time to reply.

It worked! And I go through the rest of the tutorial. At the end I check if the HEX board is detected with:

sudo ./cgminer -n

and I get the confirmation: 1 known USB devices

Now I return to the "run cgminer with:"

sudo ./cgminer -c ./cgminer.conf

But I get the error: unable to open ./cgminer.conf: No such file or directory

OK so i cd and I cd cgminer-hax16a-3.6.1 where there is such a file.

I try to copy it by: cp cgminer.conf /cgminer-3.6.1

But no luck: cp: cannot create regular file '/cgminer-3.6.1': Permission denied

Ah; add 'sudo'... No error, but also no file in the directory cgminer-3.6.1 ?!? Also no file after 'ls' or even 'sudo ls'...

I know, I said I'm a newbie... Sorry!

But: please help!

thanks for the tutorial 2GOOD!

After a substantial amount of time on this forum (and others) I tried to get my Technobit HEX16 to work on a Raspberry. It works on a Windows machine in combination with HEXminer but I am not impressed by it's stability...

Being a total newbie on Linux I followed several "tutorials" I found on the fora. The one I had the "best" result with (and being quoted by others as working) is this one described by you (BIG thank you once more for that one 2GOOD, BTW!).

But after I:

sudo apt-get update

and I:

sudo apt-get install autoconf yasm pkg-config make libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

succesfully, then I:

Download the build cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz with: wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8082585/cg/cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz 

I extract the archive with: tar -xvf cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz

But the tutorial then says to "Edit cgminer.conf - it is preconfigured for speeds 480Mhz @ 1440mV"
I have no idea what to do so I type: "edit cgminer.conf" and all it says is:

Warning: unknown mime-type for "cgminer.conf" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Error: no "edit" mailcap rules found for type "application/octet-stream"

I change directory by: cd cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1 and try again, but with the same result

Assuming I need some sort of editor to do this AND assuming that the preconfigured file should be OK for now I run cgminer with:
sudo ./cgminer -c ./cgminer.conf

But I get this message:
./cgminer: 1: ./cgminer: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

Undeterred I continue with the tutorial (thinking maybe I should run the patch before this actually works), and I: cd

Then I: apt-get install autoconf libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config yasm make

AND HERE IT STOPS FOR ME WITH THE MESSAGE:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?



Just to be complete, the rest of the tutorial says to:
wget https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/archive/v3.6.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf v3.6.1.tar.gz
cd cgminer-3.6.1
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8082585/cg/cgminer_3_6_1_rev_fe5da9672767e18116444dad18db54638936490a.patch
patch < cgminer_3_6_1_rev_fe5da9672767e18116444dad18db54638936490a.patch
./autogen.sh --disable-opencl --disable-adl --enable-avalon --enable-hexminer --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus
make
sudo ./cgminer -n
to check the HEX board is detected

Could you please help me get this Technobit HEX16 on a Raspberry with a clean install of Raspbian / Debian to work?

Dear readers,

After a substantial amount of time on this forum (and others) I tried to get my Technobit HEX16 to work on a Raspberry. It works on a Windows machine in combination with HEXminer but I am not impressed by it's stability...

Being a total newbie on Linux I followed several "tutorials" I found on the fora. The one I had the "best" result with (and being quoted by others as working) is the one described by 2GOOD [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303538.msg3371198#msg3371198] (BIG thank you for that one 2GOOD, BTW!).

But after I:

sudo apt-get update

and I:

sudo apt-get install autoconf yasm pkg-config make libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

succesfully, then I:

Download the build cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz with: wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8082585/cg/cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz  

I extract the archive with: tar -xvf cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1.tar.gz

But the tutorial then says to "Edit cgminer.conf - it is preconfigured for speeds 480Mhz @ 1440mV"
I have no idea what to do so I type: "edit cgminer.conf" and all it says is:

Warning: unknown mime-type for "cgminer.conf" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Error: no "edit" mailcap rules found for type "application/octet-stream"

I change directory by: cd cgminer-hex16a-3.6.1 and try again, but with the same result

Assuming I need some sort of editor to do this AND assuming that the preconfigured file should be OK for now I run cgminer with:
sudo ./cgminer -c ./cgminer.conf

But I get this message:
./cgminer: 1: ./cgminer: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

Undeterred I continue with the tutorial (thinking maybe I should run the patch before this actually works), and I: cd

Then I: apt-get install autoconf libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config yasm make

AND HERE IT STOPS FOR ME WITH THE MESSAGE:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?



Just to be complete, the rest of the tutorial says to:
wget https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/archive/v3.6.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf v3.6.1.tar.gz
cd cgminer-3.6.1
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8082585/cg/cgminer_3_6_1_rev_fe5da9672767e18116444dad18db54638936490a.patch
patch < cgminer_3_6_1_rev_fe5da9672767e18116444dad18db54638936490a.patch
./autogen.sh --disable-opencl --disable-adl --enable-avalon --enable-hexminer --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus
make
sudo ./cgminer -n
to check the HEX board is detected

Could you please help me get this Technobit HEX16 on a Raspberry with a clean install of Raspbian / Debian to work?