I tried it both ways. It doesn't make a difference. QED.
You said in you OP that it says you do not have privileges to run this. Have you tried right clicking and running the shortcut as an administrator? The problem isn't user privileges. bfgminer was originally written for posix-compliant operating systems that consider all devices to be files where you can set access to them by user permissions. Windows doesn't have the capability to limit access to USB devices by user privileges. User privileges are only available at the filesystem level, and since Windows doesn't consider non-storage devices to be filesystem components it's not possible to restrict permission to them. This is not the same as the privileges required to install drivers for a device. You must have administrative privileges to install a device driver. Windows assumes that if you have administrative privileges to install the driver you should be allowed to access the device even without elevated privileges. Because of this the application doesn't know the difference between being blocked from accessing the device by the OS because of user privileges and the device not responding due to any of the issues I listed in my original post. It only checks if the hardware is responding. If it doesn't accept commands the application assumes it's because of privileges and displays the reported error. That said, the most likely cause of this error is that the device was detected by Windows when it was plugged in because your hub provides enough power for the USB interface, but the device can't be accessed because the hub cannot provide enough consistent power to operate the FPGA. I was able to determine this was a problem by testing with both USB2.0 powered hubs and USB3.0 powered hubs. Try replacing your hub with a USB3.0 hub. The worst case scenario is that you send the hub back to Amazon with free shipping because it didn't fix the problem. On the other hand, if it does fix your problem you've only lost the cost or opportunity. Good info to know. So it seems like his solution is to back out the amount of BE's he has plugged into the hub as they are exceeding its power. |
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I tried it both ways. It doesn't make a difference. QED.
You said in you OP that it says you do not have privileges to run this. Have you tried right clicking and running the shortcut as an administrator? |
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What arguments are you using to run bfgminer, what OS? We need more info in order to help.
I have Win7 I have 10 BEs and 4 7950s' running on the same rig. I tried two different ways: 1) As per BTCGuilds Guide I created a shortcut and changed it to: C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\BFGminer\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer.exe -o http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u XXX_1 -p XXX -S all --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 I also tried creating a .bat file with this: C:\Users\bit\Desktop\BFGminer\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool.50btc.com:8332 -u XXX@yahoo.com -p 123 -S erupter :all Thanks for any advice. Try capitalizing the "A" in all (i.e. -S All, or -S erupter:All), and using either one of those lines. This is religious extemporization. You don't need to capitalize the letter A and this won't fix the problem. Before you recommend that someone does something to fix a problem you should try it yourself to see if it actually fixes anything. Hmm, to start something or not.....I wont, Im in a good mood today. Firstly, I suggested he try it. Some things ARE in fact case sensitive, i.e. -G vs -g mean two different things (one disables gpus, the other denotes the amount of gpu threads). Secondly, every notation I have seen on it, including my own config that I use, all have the "A" capitalized. Did it make a difference? Dont know, just suggested he try it. With knowing the above argument stated, it seemed like a pretty good educated guess. Thirdly, I am not currently around any hardware to test it on, and was merely attempting to help get his problem solved in the shortest amount of down time, instead of waiting hours until I got home, pull up one of my rigs, and begin playing around to find out if it infact made a difference. |
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What arguments are you using to run bfgminer, what OS? We need more info in order to help.
I have Win7 I have 10 BEs and 4 7950s' running on the same rig. I tried two different ways: 1) As per BTCGuilds Guide I created a shortcut and changed it to: C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\BFGminer\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer.exe -o http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u XXX_1 -p XXX -S all --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 I also tried creating a .bat file with this: C:\Users\bit\Desktop\BFGminer\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer-3.1.4-win64\bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool.50btc.com:8332 -u XXX@yahoo.com -p 123 -S erupter :all Thanks for any advice. Try capitalizing the "A" in all (i.e. -S All, or -S erupter:All), and using either one of those lines. |
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Or -S erupter:all
He was using that before in the OP, but I am not sure (since its relatively new and I havent seen any posts on it), will using erupter:All also detect his Jalapeno? Thats the question, will his setup he has now where he uses erupter:All also see his Jalapeno and mine with it once he plugs it in? |
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After you use -S, instead of putting All or erupter:All, you have to tell it which USB COM port to use.
Linux - /dev/ttyUSBn
Windows - \\.\COMn
Replace the n with the com port of the corresponding erupter you want to use.
ok my problem is that when my pc reboots some of the com ports change so a erupter ,ight not be the same som port aka was 12 now 22 etc No way to control that, except for making sure your system doesnt reboot. |
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Shouldnt need to list all the com ports. Just use -S All, it should find all your USB devices (BFL and BE's).
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Update:
I'll pay .05 aka 8 dollars to anybody who can answer my questions and set me up right, to get the most I can for my Little Single machine.
With DGM, its all about the "luck" off the pool, meaning how soon that pool can solve a block, and thus get the reward for it. The more blocks it finds, the more it can pay out (in theory). If you look over the last 2 days of Eclipse, its been hit with some long long blocks. One was 6 hours, one was 9 hours, and then there was another that was 15 hours long. That means for those using DGM are having a bad luck streak over the last 24 hours or so. But then there are times when you get blocks solve din 45 minutes and back to back to back. Those are the good luck streak. Thats why they say that over time it balances out. Usually though they say if you have enough hash power and are using DGM, and at a decent pool (which eclipse would be one) then you can get about a 60/40 ratio and thus get paid out more. But some people dont line the inconsistency, which is why they choose PPS. Its more flat. You take the price per share that the pool is paying out and for every share you submit, regardless if a block is solved or not, you get credit for it and will get paid for it. Its more consistent, but you also dont leave yourself open to being able to get on a good luck streak with a pool when it starts solving blocks quickly. So you need to decide, do you want luck and the potential to earn more over a long period of time? Or do you want consistent flow of coins that only changes when the difficulty changes? |
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Instead of --disable-gpu you can use "-G" which does the same thing, just saves characters.
Also if you use the command "-S erupter:all" instead of "-S all" it will give you some more options once the miner is running, nothing big but more might be added down the line.
what command must be use if you only want say 1 erupter to work and the other to be use for something else? From the README (paraphrasing): After you use -S, instead of putting All or erupter:All, you have to tell it which USB COM port to use. Linux - /dev/ttyUSBn Windows - \\.\COMn Replace the n with the com port of the corresponding erupter you want to use. |
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Thank you very much for the reply, I tried typing (without the square bracket around the address) and it just gives me a black screen of command prompt with no acitivity. Here's what I typed :C:\Users\Dustin\Desktop\bfgminer-3.2.0-win32\bfgminer.exe -o www.btcguild.com -u Dustinminer_1 -p 1 -S all -g, is that right? Thanks for the help  Almost, you listed the website, not the pool server address. Replace www.btcguild.com with http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333. And also, the arguments have to be case sensitive, so it should be exactly like this, -S All -G |
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You cant I dont believe. Guiminer hasnt really been updated over the last year, and it only supports CPU and GPU mining, so thats why it doesnt recognize your Jalapeno. You are going to need to use cgminer or bfgminer. Its not hard to learn, just takes 5 minutes, and googling. In fact, I will even help you (im in the kind of mood today). 1) Download bfgminer for Windows from here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=168174.0 (get the right version and download the zip file) 2) Extract folder to your desktop 3) Open the folder, right click bfgminer.exe and make a shortcut, take that shortcut and paste it on your desktop 4) Right click that shortcut and choose properties. 5) On the "target" line, remove the quotes around the bfgminer location (should be something like C:\users\[user name]\desktop\bfgminer\bfgminer.exe) 6) On that "target" line make a space after bfgminer.exe and add the following "-o [url of pool server] -u [worker name] -p [password for worker] -S All -G", without the quotes of course. 7) Hit apply, then hit ok.  Now double click the shortcut, and away you go, you should be mining. |
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I've just created native stratum proxy support for http1.0/1.1 and socks5 proxies for cgminer and it is now in the git master branch so it will be in the next cgminer release.
You are awesome, thanks!! |
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Hi Luke!!!!
Could i mine SHA and scrypt AT SAME TIME?
SHA with Block Erupters and FPGA´s; Scrypt With GPU.
If possible?
What should do?
Thanks!!!
Run multiple instances.... How could i do that? Whats your OS? |
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I see you posed this over on the official forum for BAMT 1.1 as well. Did it work? Just curious. I run BAMT 0.5c, but with the instructions found at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127622.0 I was able to update the regular BAMT, and just enable scrypt from there (as well as USB support for Avalons, Erupters, and BFL devices). |
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I still run BAMT on two of my machines. I have updated them to be able to handle updated GPUs, as well as scrypt and ASIC's. One sits in my basement and I access it via SSH when needed.
Do you run this with the Erupters or something else? I would like to use mine like that. Yes, I mine with 2 graphics cards, a jalapeno, and 3 BE's all off he same BAMT system. |
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I know I'm a bit late in menting this, but a few posts back there was a bit of confusion with where 'make clean' should go. I think people may have been getting confused with 'make distclean'. 'make clean' should just remove old object files, etc (things generated AFTER make is executed) leaving the configure file, etc intact. 'make distclean' will do the same as 'make clean' AND it will remove the configuration file, etc too. So 'make clean' should be safe to run after a autogen or configure command, 'make distclean' won't be safe. If you get an error when you type make clean that there is nothing to be done, that usually means that it's already clean.
I would imagine a good thing to do when building a new version is definitely to run 'make distclean' first to clean out old configs as well, especially if the build process has changed. Even better would be to just 'sudo rm -r <cgminer directory>' and do another git clone of the repo, then you know you are safe and don't have anything lying around if you are having problems with the build process.
I realise this was not the original posters problem in the end, but just though it should be mentioned for when people compile other things.
Alex
Thanks for the clear up on this, I appreciate it. |
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I tried bfgminer 3.2.0, and it only detects my gpu.
bfgminer didnt work because you also needed -icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 to go along with your -S All argument. |
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Right, I'm obviously done something wrong here. Rebooted & now got the "all devices disabled - cannot mine" death sentence. What you reckon - uninstall/reinstall everything? or is it a simple fix? I'm such a nonce sometimes.......  It wouldnt hurt, if you have that time. I would start over, download the latest version from the git and extract, then move your "make clean" line before your ./autogen.sh line, recompile and see if that works. Again, I know less than you do, just from the little bit I have seen around and from what I have done, it seems you have to make clean first, I almost think that when you do the make clean after your CFLAGS line its wiping our those options you just enabled. OK, reinstalled everything - no go: " [2013-09-04 18:21:42] Started cgminer 3.4.2 [2013-09-04 18:21:42] Loaded configuration file /home/bitcoin/.cgminer/cgminer. conf [2013-09-04 18:21:42] All devices disabled, cannot mine!" Seems it's not detecting my usb? Also seing this at end of report: "configure: error: No mining configured in" Any help would be greatly appreciated...... AH, stupid me, you have to enable your USB's as well. So, you arent wanting to use your GPU's at all, right? Then in addition to --disable-opencl, you need to also include --enable-blfsc --enable-icarus --enable-avalon This will enable block erupters, butterfly lab USB devices, and Avalon devices. |
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Right, I'm obviously done something wrong here. Rebooted & now got the "all devices disabled - cannot mine" death sentence. What you reckon - uninstall/reinstall everything? or is it a simple fix? I'm such a nonce sometimes....... It wouldnt hurt, if you have that time. I would start over, download the latest version from the git and extract, then move your "make clean" line before your ./autogen.sh line, recompile and see if that works. Again, I know less than you do, just from the little bit I have seen around and from what I have done, it seems you have to make clean first, I almost think that when you do the make clean after your CFLAGS line its wiping our those options you just enabled. |
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Hi ckolivas,
Here's what I used to compile:
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure --disable-opencl
make clean
make
Is that right? I know it's a new, different build.....It's running 40 USB erupters.
Edit: AMD Phenom X4 9750 4GB Ram on a ssd.
Edit2: Just done another git pull - couple of minor additions, rebooting & trying again.......
Maybe I am wrong, because I dont know nearly as much as even a novice user, but, shouldnt the "make clean" line come before the CFLAGS line? |
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