Thanks guys. The kick out after finding a block seems to be a power issue as with no other devices plugged into the Pi except the miner, it worked after the most recently block was found. I will try to reinstall/compile/whatnot using the initial directions to get the --compaq-freq to work. I appreciate the suggestions on ways to power it and I plan on buying what I need to get it working properly, I just wanted to get it to work initially first. Trying not to give into the urge to buy a few more and set up a rig as a project, because the fiance might kill me lol. Thanks for the help!

I used this method off the first page to set up everything. So, I thought this would take care of it. I did use a different dependency set though I believe. The RPi does provide enough power to run it at 125 as thats what I am doing now, though I know if I want to run it higher I will need a powered USB. I think I fixed the issue with restarting as I did have too many devices plugged in the the RPi and it wasn't getting enough juice. However, after hashing fine for hours, does the power issue explain it failing when the pool hit a block?


If you want to run the sticks on linux, you'll need either bfgminer or cgminer.  Either way you are probably going to have to compile them, but I've had little trouble with this so it's probably just a matter of running a few simple commands.

Here's what you'd do to get cgminer on linux going:
1. Open a terminal.
2. wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz            

This downloads the file- you can save it from your browser instead, it's the same thing.

3. tar -xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz

This extracts the files. which are compressed (like a zip file for linux)

4. cd cgminer-gekko
 
Enters the cgminer-gekko folder you just extracted.

5. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool

You need to install the dependencies for cgminer.

6. ./autogen.sh

This will generate a configure script for you which will set up compiling for your system.

7. ./configure --enable-gekko

This will configure the build.  This is the most likely place to have anything go wrong, if it does, let me know exactly what's up.  Odds are it would be some package that you should have installed.

8. make

Performs the build.  If you get an error there- again, let me know details.

You are ready to run cgminer.  This should look something like:

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

Although if you don't have permissions setup you may have to become root or use sudo, eg,

sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

cgminer should now detect any compacs plugged in while it is running.  Obviously you'll use a slightly different command to launch cgminer, if you use that one you'll be mining for us!  Most pools even post example commands, let me know if you need help figuring it out.

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novak
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I am new to linux and bitcoin mining and I am having some issues. Heres what I am working with:
Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspbian Wheezy (fully up to date as of yesterday)
1 GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer currently plugged directly in the the RPi USB (not a powered hub/no cooling)
cgminer 4.9.2 all set up following Novaks guide on this site for cgminer-gekko

I am having these issues:
1. Using sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 -u connersc.worker1 -p anything --compac-freq 150 I get an error that the --compac-freq command is not recognized and cgminer does not start. When using the same command with out that option it started with the gekko defaulting to 125. How do I change the freq/voltage?
2. I am using slushs pool and at 125 it registers with the pool and everything seems dandy (6+ GH), but twice now when it hit a block, some error occurred (not sure the error as I was away at the time) and it stopped hashing and eventually went zombie status. The first time this happened I restarted the Pi and restarted cgminer and it was back up and running. However, the second time now it wont start running properly giving errors like : compac 1: no valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset
compac 1 attempted reset got err:(0) LIBUSB_SUCCESS
compac 1: device failed to respond to restart
compac 1 failure, disabling! and then i repeats for compac 2 etc till zombie

Can anyone help me out? Did I brick it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!