It took me a while to figure out how to get my system setup, so I thought I would make a post to help any Mac OS X users out there.
Note: I am using Mac OS X 10.8.5 with MacMiner 1.4.10 and ASIC USB Erupters
https://box716.bluehost.com:2083/viewer/home8%2ffridgefu%2fpublic_html%2fochomesandleases/asicusberupters.JPGThe Basics1. Create a bitcoin wallet (There are numerous threads on this)
2. Download and install MacMiner and required USB Drivers
-MacMiner
http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/macminer/ -USB Drivers
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx3. Once your drivers are installed you can plug in your ASIC USB Erupters
4. Find a mining pool (Numerous threads on this)
MacMiner Setup1. Open MacMiner - it should by default open up a BFGMiner window. Close this and go to View > Show FPGA/ASIC Device Miner
2. Click on Pool Settings. Enter your wallet information and the mining pool login/password.
3. Once you enter your main mining pool, MacMiner puts in two default pools which you can manually change. I have changed both.
4. Click on Miner Settings. Click to Disable GPU.
5. In the Devices/manual flags section you will want to put in the location of your USB Erupters. An easy way to discover them is to type in "-S all" and hit start on the miner. It should show a few lines that display something like "/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART" if you have more than one USB erupter it will have a number at the end of this. So in my case my USB Erupters were located at /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART11 and /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART12
6. In the Devices/manual flags simply copy and paste where your USB Erupters are located by putting "-S /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART" for each erupter. Since I have three erupters, I put in "-S /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART -S /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART11 -S /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART12"
https://box716.bluehost.com:2083/viewer/home8%2ffridgefu%2fpublic_html%2fochomesandleases/macminer2.png (The first part gets cut off, but you type that snippet for each erupter)
7. Hit Start
8. If you are successful you should see MacMiner connecting to your pool 0 (primary pool) and start to accept block contents
https://box716.bluehost.com:2083/viewer/home8%2ffridgefu%2fpublic_html%2fochomesandleases/macminer.png9. The green lights on your USB Erupters should now turn off and only blink once in a while to indicate they are working. Solid green means it is not working.
10. Double check your mining pool website to see if you are submitting shares
Optional Steps - Changing backup pools1. Click Miner Settings > Edit config file manually
2. It should be fairly obvious where to put in your second / third pool info. You past the url into the coding of URL and login/pass areas
Hope this helps as it took me a while to get my setup running.
