Noob to Raspberry Pi and Minepeon..need help installing antminer and red bitfury

[MarkMarvin]

Hey guys. Ive been working on this Raspberry Pi setup for the better part of a month. Mainly because the parts took so long to get here. But I first had trouble even writing the Minepeon img file to my sd card but it finally worked. I can log in to my Minepeon and set my pools but for some reason the program isnt detecting my Antminer and Red Bitfurys. It says "no devices running". I can mine on my computer (windows 8.1) but I would rather reduce the power bill if you know what I mean lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[fasteddie9987]

minepeon wouldn't work with my raspberry and antminers so I used cgminer instead.  It worked out a lot better as I can also use the pi for other things too.  With minepeon, you are kinda stuck with that 24/7 and can't do anything else. There are a couple of helpful threads to help you install it all. 

Here's the thread I found most helpful

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=399054.0

[MarkMarvin]

Well the version of Minepeon I am using has both options of using bfgminer or cgminer and it shows some coding above the selection but I dont know coding so I wouldnt have any idea how to tell it how to use the antminer or the red bitfurys. Currently I am using cgminer on my pc (Windows 8.1) with the antminer, and bfgminer with my 4 red bitfurys. Are you sure I have to change OS or can I fix this somehow?

[fasteddie9987]

Well the version of Minepeon I am using has both options of using bfgminer or cgminer and it shows some coding above the selection but I dont know coding so I wouldnt have any idea how to tell it how to use the antminer or the red bitfurys. Currently I am using cgminer on my pc (Windows 8.1) with the antminer, and bfgminer with my 4 red bitfurys. Are you sure I have to change OS or can I fix this somehow?

The issue I had with minepeon was that some of the second function keys wouldn't seem to work on it.  I had to compile a version of cg miner that accepted my antminers.  I know people who are using block errupters and ants had to compile 2 seperate versions of cg miner in order to get them both working.  I'm not sure if you can do this with minepeon as it is basically only an operating system. It shouldnt be too much of an issue though if you have to compile to cgminer versions as they'll both be contributing to the same mining account so you won't lose out, you'll just probably have to set up a new worker on your mining pool to accommodate the two different types of miners you have. 

I'm still all new to this too but this is what I've picked up along the way so I may be way off.

[MarkMarvin]

Ok thanks for your help. I guess I am going to download Raspbian. but what do i do after that lol. im not very good at sudo commands and such idk anything about the cmd line in linux systems. how do you even open a program if you have no mouse hooked up? let alone use the cmd line lol

[fasteddie9987]

Ok thanks for your help. I guess I am going to download Raspbian. but what do i do after that lol. im not very good at sudo commands and such idk anything about the cmd line in linux systems. how do you even open a program if you have no mouse hooked up? let alone use the cmd line lol

You may be best getting to your local computer store or ebay and picking up a cheap usb keyboard with mouse pad intergrated. It'll only take up 1 usb slot on your hub then.  Oh and make sure you have an external mains powered hub as the pi won't be able to provide enough juice. I just followed the thread I posted previously in regards to setting up my antminers and compiling cg miner.  Read through the whole thread though so you avoid the issues that other people encountered and if you do encounter a problem then double check your spelling as you most probably have just typed a line in wrong.  This happened to me a couple of times.  Don't worry about messing it up either because worst case scenario is you just delete your memory card, reinstall raspian software and go again.  I'm not sure about your bit fury so you'll probably have to search the forums a bit but I would imagine there are some posts on this site to help you with that.   

I had never used linux commands before either but don't let it worry you.  You will learn from your mistakes and pick it up quickly. 

[nasamanBoy]

you got  here
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=55464

[MarkMarvin]

Ok basically whats been happening now is:

I formatted the sd card with SDFormatter
I wrote the img of Raspbian with Win32DiskImager
It boots up and I see a rainbow but then it starts running all this code and stops at something to do with keyboard.
Ive tried an old HP Pavilion keyboard with a usb adapter and my Corsair Vengence K70. When I plug them into the powered hub they dont even light up to show they have power. Ive tried booting with them plugged in and it does the same thing...stops at keyboard. What is wrong?

[fasteddie9987]

Ok basically whats been happening now is:

I formatted the sd card with SDFormatter
I wrote the img of Raspbian with Win32DiskImager
It boots up and I see a rainbow but then it starts running all this code and stops at something to do with keyboard.
Ive tried an old HP Pavilion keyboard with a usb adapter and my Corsair Vengence K70. When I plug them into the powered hub they dont even light up to show they have power. Ive tried booting with them plugged in and it does the same thing...stops at keyboard. What is wrong?

Hmmm, I never had anything like this.  My pi has always detected it upon start up.  Does it work on another machine and have you tried starting the pi with the keyboard attached to it directly?  If this were to work it would probably be an issue with the hub.  Oh, another cause could be if your hub is a usb 3.0.  I read a while back that they don't work properly with pi's and to use a USB 2.0 hub. 

You're probably best asking someone on the raspi pi forums for advice on this really.  I didnt see anything on a quick google search.

I did find this though http://recolog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/on-screen-keyboard-for-raspberry-pi.html for an on screen keyboard but you're obviously going to need a keyboard to type in the coding so that doesn't really help you at the moment.

[MarkMarvin]

My usb hub is a Rosewill 10 port 2.0 hub model RHB-520. Honestly I think it has something to do with my new computer with the sd card reader I bought. and the sd card itself. when i first got both of them they didnt want to work with my new pc cause i am using a 3.0 usb port and windows 8.1  i have a laptop that runs windows 7 and it seems to format fine on that...maybe ill give that a try. reformat and install raspbian and try again. if it works ill let you know. how do i install bfgminer and cgminer on raspbian? and configure it for bitfurys. i wish i could just use the windows drivers lol

[MarkMarvin]

Ok Im definitely sure its the sd card! This thing will NOT write the image with Win32diskimager. ive erased and written several times and win32diskimager just fails repeatedly. im just gonna buy a pre-installed sd card with NOOBS. Save me some trouble. Handheld keyboard and touchpad for R-pi and pre-installed NOOBS sd card on the way!