New to mining and trying to learn, Antminer U2 setup question

[jburke4]

I'm trying to setup an Antminer U2 with multiplool but can't seem to get it to work.

I'm using the command line:

                        bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://us-west.multipool.us:7777 -u [MYUSERNAME] -p x
 
With cgminer I get "No devices detected" I see the device listed in both device manager and in Devices and Printers as Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (Com4)  It does eventually seem to find the device but It does not appear to be doing anything productive.  I keep getting in an endless loop:

                        Pool 0 difficulty changed to 16384

Also once working should I adjust the Bits per second in the hardware properties?  It's currently set at 9600.

[jonnybravo0311]

Antminer U2 won't work with scrypt - only sha256d.  You're trying to mine the wrong algorithm

stratum+tcp://us-west.multipool.us:9999 is the one you want.

[jburke4]

Giving it a try now.

Thanks

[jburke4]

So far no luck, now the CMD interface is blank.  Tried running it a couple times, letting it just run for a while to see if maybe there is an issue on the other end.

[cakir]

Here's the "cgminer" download links; https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201404130633105772QFG6R2u0635
Here's the manual how to use them; https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201404130632574925y76a4v50657

You should use cgminer, not bfgminer.

[jburke4]

It's running now but without results.  Just endlessly looping the statement about changing the difficulty.

[jburke4]

Installed Zadig and configured per instructions on the website.  Also using the information from multipool for their ASIC server I am using this command line:

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://us-east.multipool.us:8888 -u [MYUSERNAME] -p [MYPASSWORD]

I am still getting the endless difficulty changing loop.

[cr1776]

You might have more luck posting in here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=76.0

[cakir]

Installed Zadig and configured per instructions on the website.  Also using the information from multipool for their ASIC server I am using this command line:

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://us-east.multipool.us:8888 -u [MYUSERNAME] -p [MYPASSWORD]

I am still getting the endless difficulty changing loop.

Your asic is not powerful enough. You should use "low diff ports". If you check the website's main page https://www.multipool.us/ you'll see those are for you;
sha-256 ASIC
(stratum)
BTC low diff1:   stratum+tcp://us-east.multipool.us:9999
stratum+tcp://us-west.multipool.us:9999
   stratum+tcp://eu.multipool.us:9999

[jburke4]

I have used all of their pools with the same result.  I have even tried Antminer pool as well figured that if that doesn't work nothing will but I just get the endless difficulty changed loop.  It's been running that on Antpool for about 20 minutes now.







Per the earlier advice I made a new thread at:

 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=76.0

[unsoindovo]

I'm trying to setup an Antminer U2 with multiplool but can't seem to get it to work.

I'm using the command line:

                        bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://us-west.multipool.us:7777 -u [MYUSERNAME] -p x
 
With cgminer I get "No devices detected" I see the device listed in both device manager and in Devices and Printers as Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (Com4)  It does eventually seem to find the device but It does not appear to be doing anything productive.  I keep getting in an endless loop:

                        Pool 0 difficulty changed to 16384

Also once working should I adjust the Bits per second in the hardware properties?  It's currently set at 9600.

hi jburke4 .
I think if you post some log or screen shot it could help to understand..
and maybe it is useful to help you!

 

[Mikestang]

I'm trying to setup an Antminer U2 with multiplool but can't seem to get it to work.

I'm using the command line:

                        bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://us-west.multipool.us:7777 -u [MYUSERNAME] -p x
 
With cgminer I get "No devices detected" I see the device listed in both device manager and in Devices and Printers as Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (Com4)  It does eventually seem to find the device but It does not appear to be doing anything productive.  I keep getting in an endless loop:

                        Pool 0 difficulty changed to 16384

Also once working should I adjust the Bits per second in the hardware properties?  It's currently set at 9600.

You need to zadig it to use cgminer, then it will fire right up.