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I've even spoken to a higher level representative here in Italy, in Milan, which told me the same thing, they cannot search without tracking, they can visualize all packages they are handling, but they cannot filter them for name, or destination and so on.
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Here in the USA each DHL representative I talk to, a different one each day, does a search for me of all packages being shipped to my name at my address within the past month. I asked the guy today if he is confident given the search he did that I don't have a package in the DHL system and he said yes. Sam Their search is crap, or they aren't bothering. I called and emailed every day since Yifu told me mine were shipped even the day they arrived and had nothing. Then presto they showed up. I was quite worried as well. The only thing I can think of is Canada customs is sitting on it, or it was stolen in transit and DHL or whoever it hands off to in Canada is sitting on it as long as they can. |
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No network at all. Nothing. Put a network tester on it. Nothing. No dhcp/bootp not activity at all. No response to any of the common ip addresses. Recovery doesn't need a serial port. To recover an Avalon. Shut unit off. Setup a pc. Get a http server running on it. Put known good firmware in root directory of webpage. Setup PC on ip 192.168.1.5. Start a ping to 192.168.1.1 plug cable between pc and Avalon. Power up Avalon. Watch blue led on wrt. When it blinks after 10 seconds or so hold down reset button for 1-2 seconds. PC should be able to telnet and ping to 192.168.1.1 Telnet to device. It's in limp mode. cd /tmp wget http://192.168.1.5/firmware.binmtd -r write firmware.bin firmware It will reboot Avalon when done. Setup as clean Avalon. Avalon up will be back to 192.168.0.100 Connect to default webpage and restore backup settings or reconfigure. |
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Made a BFGMiner 2.99.0 + experimental Avalon driver firmware image in case any Avalon users want to give it a try. Be careful! If this (or anything else) bricks your Avalon's controller, you will need to attach a serial port to recover! I have no way to test this, so try it at your own risk. It should be possible to enable network recovery in U-Boot, but I cannot provide instructions for this yet. That being said, it is based very closely off the original Avalon firmware and driver code, so I don't expect any problems. There is no web interface or init scripts for BFGMiner at this time, so you will need to use SSH to run it. It is, however, compiled with the usual Text-User-Interface (TUI) and include GNU "Screen". Edit: OpenWrt trunk (r35828) config used to build thistried it, bricks avalon. failsafe works. recovered to stock firmware. |
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Setup was easy.
Hardcode a laptop, open web page put in a URL hit save, done.
Getting p2pool to work, not easy. Getting kmod-USB storage working, difficult.
Having to open that lid and fix the modules that came loose from shipping and replace some cables was harder.
Putting that damn lid back on...HARD. Such a pain. LOL.
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Sounds like the problem is all in the p2pool end anyway? Can you tell if it's actually successfully connecting directly stratum because that would be essential to avoid p2pool sending a lot and higher diffs would be essential to avoid p2pool receiving a lot.
Avalon Cgminer without fix protocol connects on stratum but resends all work over and over. There's something wrong with the way it reads the stratum response. Someone, Jeff I think, said it has a problem with double byte responses that p2pool makes. On getwork, it just hammers the server and the DOA rate is >25%. Using a very high diff 3000-4000 helps a tiny bit. The highest p2pool would let me go is 6535. Any higher number just comes back as 6535. Even soloing to a bitcoind alone will crash. It's too much. Hence the need to run a buffer like eloipool between it. https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/commit/5f061e6c6753adf93acf04b8463badef88c4106e |
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I'm making 7BTC per day with my avalons now. Next difficulty jump it will drop. By end of April or early may I'd bet its only 2-3 a day or less.
It may be a long time to "payoff" an Avalon batch 3 order.
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Well I can't get it stable. I tried it under Ubuntu, under python, under windows binaries and python. Still crashes once python/p2pool eats ~1.2gb of ram it blows up and takes down bitcoind. I tried the stratum proxy, old getwork mining proxies,you name it. Nothing will run more than a few hours.
I may try baking my own firmware with some alternative builds, but for now its not working. I can mine on btcguild or slush or eloipool solo and not have any problems.
I'm going to offer a starting bounty of 10BTC for anyone who gets the avalon working properly and stable* on p2pool.
*Ill define properly as a reasonable hashrate and DOA rate ( ~25% on fix-protocol ) and stable as 1 week uptime without p2pool or bitcoind crashing. The avalon itself is buggy and restarts sometimes.
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Made a BFGMiner 2.99.0 + experimental Avalon driver firmware image in case any Avalon users want to give it a try. Be careful! If this (or anything else) bricks your Avalon's controller, you will need to attach a serial port to recover! I have no way to test this, so try it at your own risk. It should be possible to enable network recovery in U-Boot, but I cannot provide instructions for this yet. That being said, it is based very closely off the original Avalon firmware and driver code, so I don't expect any problems. There is no web interface or init scripts for BFGMiner at this time, so you will need to use SSH to run it. It is, however, compiled with the usual Text-User-Interface (TUI) and include GNU "Screen". Edit: OpenWrt trunk (r35828) config used to build thisLuke, is there any way to run this without reflashing the firmware? Is there a change log ( for the avalon build ) of what makes this different or better than the cgminer build in NEXT? |
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My avalons arrived yesterday out of the blue. Yifu said the same thing, they were shipped.
DHL couldn't find them in their system I called a bunch of times. Even the morning they were delivered DHL found nothing in their system. So just because DHL can't find it doesn't mean it's not on it way.
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Being completely honest. I was going to buy 10-20 batch 3, even if the price doubled to $3,000. But they asked too much. I'm heavily onsidering plunking down some cash this week on a BFL minirig.
I love avalon and I' happy with my bath 1 purchases that finally arrived today. But, still it was quite frustrating getting them delivered and the dealys for batch 2 and an unknown time for batch 3 make me very hesitant. Combine that with the huge price increase and it's a no go, right now.
If paying 5 grand for something is too much, why the hell would you pay 1300 for nothing? That's quite a good point. Even better when you consider that a minirig is actually $30k and worth nothing until it's delivered which may well be never. the same can be said about anything else? Avalon can deliver, but when? End of april, or may? BFL could be shipping by then and difficulty is way up. By then it makes more sense to go minirig, even if it is twice the power and half the hashrate than buying 10 avalons. |
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Well I don't know why you're taking this on yourself... I appreciate the gesture but it's not remotely trivial. Let me explain why it's now not that simple. As the avalon code was developed in secret outside of cgminer development, they worked on a codebase that is now redundant, hacking into it in a way where the only driver that works is for avalon. Cgminer's usb code and queueing has completely changed since then. To bring the avalon code into line would require large chunks of code to be rewritten to suit these changes. This is the danger of writing code out of the main tree. Now porting it to the new driver and queueing model and requires quite a bit of time effort and testing, and needs someone to support it (or not if it's abandoned). This is not in the scope of "lend me access to your mining hardware for a few hours over ssh".  I suspect Xiangfu will eventually be forced to keep his code in sync with the main cgminer git tree. Yes I'm bitter about the whole Avalon experience, seeing them mine 10s of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin each day with software mostly written by us, without them engaging us at all (except to get into a bunfight with Kano) or us earning a cent for our part, but it's not your fault.  Well someone's gotta do it. Ill see what I can do. I can code and tinker. I just don't like to much. I'm gonna be gone a fair bit of April. So if you want to screw with my units you can but you may have to call one of my techs to hard reset them if you bork one and can't reset it remotely. It's an offer if you are interested in doing it right  Ps I've probably given you 50 coins by now, over the past couple years. Keep up the good work. |
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And p2pool crashed again... Keeps imploding and dropping connection to bitcoind. Gonna have to send Forrest some logs.
The avalons are mining fine, better since I went to U/2000+1 without diff they hammer the piss out of the server. Still 10-15% DOA, but better than 25% I started with.
The BFLs will work fine on p2pool - get one of them ... whenever they are available  Meanwhile ... now what did I say to GitSyncom about "proper" Avalon support ... they sure aren't providing anything like that ... Well it's better than anything anyone else has right now, save asicminer. And he's probably using the same thing just in bigger cards I bet. I've had enough fun for the day. I gotta get to bed. I have to fly to Italy and go play with a lidar unit on a NATO ship. Fun fun.. Glad I got my units in before I left. |
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I wonder if I ran one of the get work to stratum proxies if it would work on p2pool?
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And p2pool crashed again... Keeps imploding and dropping connection to bitcoind. Gonna have to send Forrest some logs.
The avalons are mining fine, better since I went to U/2000+1 without diff they hammer the piss out of the server. Still 10-15% DOA, but better than 25% I started with.
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Having trouble keeping it stable. P2pool keeps crashing. Will only run for an hour or so before it blows up.
It probably can't keep up with the massive hashrate. Might wanna get rid of the --fix-protocol flag. Have to use it. Otherwise avalon won't run. it doesn't like double byte stratum. Needs to be fixed. It's a known issue. What we need to do is get Forrest an Avalon to tinker with Cause the cgminer devs aren't invited to the party You guys are invited, we love you. How about ssh to a unit? You get it happy, you keep the bitcoin it mines while you work? |
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Having trouble keeping it stable. P2pool keeps crashing. Will only run for an hour or so before it blows up.
It probably can't keep up with the massive hashrate. Might wanna get rid of the --fix-protocol flag. Have to use it. Otherwise avalon won't run. it doesn't like double byte stratum. Needs to be fixed. It's a known issue. What we need to do is get Forrest an Avalon to tinker with It's not speed the CPU is fine. It's on a ssd 3930k system. It's not even touching the box. It's seems more like a resource contention problem with memory. Python is running 700-800 mb. Box has 32 gb of ram. usually when it crashes it blows up python and i see tons of weird errors and then scrolls bitcoind lost connection. Restarting p2pool.py fixes it. |
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Having trouble keeping it stable. P2pool keeps crashing. Will only run for an hour or so before it blows up.
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Being completely honest. I was going to buy 10-20 batch 3, even if the price doubled to $3,000. But they asked too much. I'm heavily onsidering plunking down some cash this week on a BFL minirig.
I love avalon and I' happy with my bath 1 purchases that finally arrived today. But, still it was quite frustrating getting them delivered and the dealys for batch 2 and an unknown time for batch 3 make me very hesitant. Combine that with the huge price increase and it's a no go, right now.
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