You beat me to the post... LOL

Try what I just posted, should be the same for unbutu as it is for raspbian.

I got the cgminer-gekko onto my Pi running raspbian, had to add a few things to get it to compile right, and don't have my sticks, so don't know if it will work yet.

For anyone compiling on a Pi running raspbian, on step 5 above I added:   libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev and libudev-dev (guess their not in raspbian and it came up with some errors)

So step 5 was: sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Then step 7. ./configure --enable-gekko --disable-libcurl  (raspbian will show an error if libcurl is not installed, but cgminer doesn't need it)

Step 8 I just did: sudo make install

Tried to run cgminer (with nothing plugged in) before adding the other dev packages and it wouldn't start, added the dev's and it started up looking for miners.

Then copied from http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/  readme

The long version:

On linux, the direct USB support requires no drivers at all. However due to permissions issues, you may not be able to mine directly on the devices as a
regular user without giving the user access to the device or by mining as root (administrator). In order to give your regular user access, you can make
him a member of the plugdev group with the following commands:

sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami`

If your distribution does not have the plugdev group you can create it with:

sudo groupadd plugdev

In order for the USB devices to instantly be owned by the plugdev group and accessible by anyone from the plugdev group you can copy the file
"01-cgminer.rules" from the cgminer archive into the /etc/udev/rules.d directory with the following command:

sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

After this you can either manually restart udev and re-login, or more easily just reboot.  Thanks ck

This should save everyone else planing on running the sticks on a Pi some time (if it works when my sticks arrive).

Thanks Novak, I'll try loading cgminer-gekko up on the Pi today after work.

So hopefully by the time the sticks arrive, I'll have the hub and everything else ready, then all I have to do is plug, tweak a little, and play 

I don't know, but I think it was me planing on chicken for diner...

Planed chicken for diner on the last 200+% block, then we hit... 

I'm still up for it.

Heres an ideal, say only 50 people want to get in and if they each have 2 sticks (or more, depending on the number in), it's still 100 sticks and 1/100, just instead of .24BTC per person, it's .24BTC per stick.

Guess just have to wait to see after everyone gets the sticks and get a good number of how many is interested for sure.

Is it the S3 in the middle (in photo) with all the errors?

If it is, try moving the PCI cable on the right hash board on the one in the middle (as you look at the photo) to the other connector up towards the network cable.

YEAH, back up ! 

And miners switched right back, now let's bust a few blocks 

Yes, was just checking on 1 setup and it had switched over to solo-ck, so checked the S3+ and it's switched also, saying kano pool is dead. 

I'm using Mint 17.1 with an older LCD monitor (no HDMI) and lower end AMD video card.

To see if your card works try searching the mint forums.  http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=49

It's been a while since I looked, but think there is a way to use the AMD drivers.

Don't forget the important part.... the CHICKEN  LOL

Looks like it's time to get the chickens ready   

Had a 750-850GH hasher hit a block on kano 4 hours ago. So you never know 

I'm going to be running with the Pi, so I don't know if it would handle running both bfg and cg miners (might ?).

What the heck, count me in, I'll just run 1 for 30 (or is it 60?) days.

It'll give me time to look at set up I'm thinking of doing with an old pc case w/PSU, modify a cheap 10 port usb hub, along with the Pi, mounted inside the case, with a couple of fan's, power everything off the PSU (use old stuff on hand to make new). See what kind of power that draws and crank the sticks up to ~ 20 - 25GH if there is power (maybe by that time, 5 more sticks might be in the cards (which .24 would help a lot  )) .

It was the first time I actually seen them do it 1 right after the other. Most times (during the night or when I'm not home) it might be 2 - 3 hours (or days) in-between.

And yes, before I cut the wire, I just unplugged USB and they reset (don't know if I was just lucky or what). With the wire cut, it was the first time I had to unplug the power to get it back.

Another observation, if when checking on them, if you see any hashing around 25 - 30GH or lower, you might as well pull the USB and reset it. If not, it might take 10 minutes, 2 hours, or longer for it to zombie and it'll probably wait until your not around.

October 8, 2015

No, tried resetting by just pulling USB first (thats all I ever did before cutting the wire), that didn't work. To get them back up, I had to remove the power (while power was down, switched back to the good cables).

Looking at ALL the stories of "TO BIG TO FAIL BANKS" checking out the Blockchain for use, kind of makes you wounder who is really going to benefit from 20MB blocks and who will use every trick in the book to control the chain (like having hand picked tor exit nods and blocking the rest).

2 or 3MB should be good for now, with increases as needed. Maybe in 10-15 years, 20MB may be needed, who knows?

Easiest way, just slot from the top chassis down to the ethernet hole, make a big "U" for cables to run through, and mount the Pi to the top of the cover or where ever wanted.

Pi is accessible and a side benefit is it's not inside of a hot miner.

Thanks AJRGale, not sure if I'm going this route or going with the Y cables, yet.

Did you disconnect the 5V+ (or are you going to cut the wire) in the cable from the hub to computer/Pi/?, so you don't get back current?

Just noticed in the pics you posted and the pics from ebay listing, your's is missing 2 of the 3 filter capacitors, so who knows what else is missing in that hub.

Hate for you to see smoke from the computer or whatever it's hooked up to!

By wings do you mean fan blade?

If so, I don't think there is any way to fix it and get it balanced again. Even if you got it kind of close to running true, would you want to be around when that piece goes flying at full/near full rpm's when the fix fails?