cpuminer.. what am I doing wrong?

[valerien]

Hello All,

just getting into bitcoins/**coins etc.. and I have guiminer running on 2 machines right now but had a question regarding CPUminer.


I downloaded the windows 64bit binary files from this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.520

and when I run minerd.exe I get a command prompt window telling me that 4 threads started using the 'scrypt' algorithm but then immedietely it says
"HTTP request failed: couldn't connect to host"
followed by:
"json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds"


I see nothing in what I downloaded besides the executable and 2 .dll files... can anyone offer any advise on how to get this up and running? I know cpumining is very slow compared to GPU mining but I have access to several machines that just run off of integrated video.


Thanks,

[ijjed]

Don't mine with CPU. Search for GPU miners.

[Gabi]

Scrypt? You downloaded a litecoin miner. Also good luck mining if you don't tell the miner on what mine (pool or solo client)

[valerien]

Scrypt? You downloaded a litecoin miner. Also good luck mining if you don't tell the miner on what mine (pool or solo client)

do you have any advice on how to tell the miner what or where to mine? or any advice on what miner that does CPU based mining to use if can't advise me on 'cpuminer'?

this is where i downloaded the miner from, but cannot post in that thread yet:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0

[valerien]

Don't mine with CPU. Search for GPU miners.

can tell you didn't read anything before posting. thanks for your contribution.

[valerien]

figured it out myself with ufasoft coin, thanks for all the newbie help.... 

[valerien]

trying to understand the modifiers & if/how I can get this to run silently in the background without any GUI.