GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[mindtrip]

Any updates Novak on recompiling your cgminer build to work alongside some regular U2 sticks? I got a bunch laying around now I guess I could build another pi just to run the old legacy miners but I have that 1 stick that won't play well with my others so I was going to put it with my old U2's

[Luke-Jr]

never tried Luke-Jrs BFGMiner, cks cgminer seems way more easy with cgminer/zadig

How is it easier to do more things to set it up? O.o
BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

[bmoscato]

Any updates Novak on recompiling your cgminer build to work alongside some regular U2 sticks? I got a bunch laying around now I guess I could build another pi just to run the old legacy miners but I have that 1 stick that won't play well with my others so I was going to put it with my old U2's

I know that BFG Miner doesn't work with both U2 and Compaq at the same time, it sees the U1 and U2 as Compaqs.

[philipma1957]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.   

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

[notlist3d]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.  

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus.  You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/

Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.

Some commands might require sudo in front as root access.   I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.

I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed.   Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150

[vapourminer]

never tried Luke-Jrs BFGMiner, cks cgminer seems way more easy with cgminer/zadig

How is it easier to do more things to set it up? O.o
BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

bfgminer needs a command line to just fire up, no? I do read READMEs but yours was a few weeks ago, so please correct me if I am remembering it wrong. cgminer does not. zadig is an easypeasy install but maybe thats just me.

yes I use the command line and yes I use ubuntu - admittedly ubuntu is probably the easiest *nix to use but I like the command line and use it for many *nix things like for my FreeNAS box scripts. BUT.. many others that are buying compacs are windows users and will not like it.

just sayin

[Luke-Jr]

never tried Luke-Jrs BFGMiner, cks cgminer seems way more easy with cgminer/zadig

How is it easier to do more things to set it up? O.o
BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

bfgminer needs a command line to just fire up, no? I do read READMEs. cgminer does not.

BFGMiner needs a command line in the same circumstances that cgminer needs a command line.
Normally, one can simply run BFGMiner and plug in miners, and it will just work.
No need to mess with drivers (like cgminer's Zadig) or anything.

[vapourminer]

never tried Luke-Jrs BFGMiner, cks cgminer seems way more easy with cgminer/zadig

How is it easier to do more things to set it up? O.o
BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

bfgminer needs a command line to just fire up, no? I do read READMEs. cgminer does not.

BFGMiner needs a command line in the same circumstances that cgminer needs a command line.
Normally, one can simply run BFGMiner and plug in miners, and it will just work.
No need to mess with drivers (like cgminer's Zadig) or anything.

this is from the READMEASIC in your miner for compac

Code:

[b]These USB sticks are based on Bitmain's BM1384 chip, and use the antminer
driver.[/b] You can set the clock frequency with

--set compac:clock=x0782

[b]The same values for Antminer U3 (above) are valid for the BM1384.[/b]

this is from your README for U3

Code:

[b]The U3 does not support autodetection, so you will want to use --scan-serial to
manually probe it. For example, to scan all devices, you can use:

-S antminer:all

[/b]
am I understanding it wrong. I do not mind being wrong as I learn from it, well usually

[Luke-Jr]

never tried Luke-Jrs BFGMiner, cks cgminer seems way more easy with cgminer/zadig

How is it easier to do more things to set it up? O.o
BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

bfgminer needs a command line to just fire up, no? I do read READMEs. cgminer does not.

BFGMiner needs a command line in the same circumstances that cgminer needs a command line.
Normally, one can simply run BFGMiner and plug in miners, and it will just work.
No need to mess with drivers (like cgminer's Zadig) or anything.

this is from the READMEASIC in your miner for compac

Code:

[b]These USB sticks are based on Bitmain's BM1384 chip, and use the antminer
driver.[/b] You can set the clock frequency with

--set compac:clock=x0782

[b]The same values for Antminer U3 (above) are valid for the BM1384.[/b]

this is from your README for U3

Code:

[b]The U3 does not support autodetection, so you will want to use --scan-serial to
manually probe it. For example, to scan all devices, you can use:

-S antminer:all

[/b]
am I understanding it wrong. I do not mind being wrong as I learn from it, well usually

You're confusing the clock values with detection options.
Is there some way to make this clearer to avoid such confusion?

[philipma1957]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.  

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus.  You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/

Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.

Some commands might require sudo in front as root access.   I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.

I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed.   Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150

okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today.

the guide reads


3) apt-get stuff.
apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

[notlist3d]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.  

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus.  You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/

Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.

Some commands might require sudo in front as root access.   I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.

I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed.   Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150

okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today.

the guide reads


3) apt-get stuff.
apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

You might need to put in front of some of the commands: sudo
That runs it as root in terminal.   On the get install i did both the one from that old guide:
apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

And the one from like page two here:
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

[vapourminer]

this is from the READMEASIC in your miner for compac

Code:

[b]These USB sticks are based on Bitmain's BM1384 chip, and use the antminer
driver.[/b] You can set the clock frequency with

--set compac:clock=x0782

[b]The same values for Antminer U3 (above) are valid for the BM1384.[/b]

this is from your README for U3

Code:

[b]The U3 does not support autodetection, so you will want to use --scan-serial to
manually probe it. For example, to scan all devices, you can use:

-S antminer:all

[/b]
am I understanding it wrong. I do not mind being wrong as I learn from it, well usually

You're confusing the clock values with detection options.
Is there some way to make this clearer to avoid such confusion?

for me at least.

so you do not need anything at all on bfgminer. for windows anything just plug it in, run  bfgminer.exe from its directory. it will ask for a pool and password and then mine correct?

thats not entirely clear from the readme

ok Ill try it.

may I suggest something like "the sidehack compac is plug and play for windows. no command line is needed, just extract the zip file to a drive/folder and run bfgminer.exe. it will as for a pool and password.

[Jake36]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.   

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus.  You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/

Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.

Some commands might require sudo in front as root access.   I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.

I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed.   Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150

okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today.

the guide reads


3) apt-get stuff.
apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

First things first, open terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade   (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter.

After it updates,  sudo reboot  (to be sure updates are active).

Then in terminal window again

sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev
(you may get a message saying you need another package installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above)

Again y/n hit y enter
After it's done,

wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz   (fixed)

tar xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz                                           (fixed)

cd cgminer-gekko                                                           (fixed)

./autogen.sh

./configure --enable-gekko --disable-libcurl    (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build)

sudo make install   (you don't have to do the install)

While still in the cgminer-gekko dir,

sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   (if it does not copy,  sudo su enter then  cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   )

sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami        (whoami= your user name you setup)

sudo reboot

After it restarts open terminal

cd cgminer-gekko

sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX

Not familiar with wheezy, but you might be able to copy/past the comands and then just fill,answer,hit enter when it asks.

EDIT: fixed

[sidehack]

Unless something's changed that I'm not aware of, there is no gekko in stock cgminer 4.9.0 so that wget won't help much at all. I think you're gonna want to grab http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz instead, as noted in the first post.

[notlist3d]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.   

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus.  You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/

Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.

Some commands might require sudo in front as root access.   I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.

I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed.   Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150

okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today.

the guide reads


3) apt-get stuff.
apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

First things first, open terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade   (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter.

After it updates,  sudo reboot  (to be sure updates are active).

Then in terminal window again

sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev
(you may get a message saying you need another package installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above)

Again y/n hit y enter
After it's done,

wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/4.9/cgminer-4.9.0.tar.bz2

tar xvzf cgminer-4.9.0.tar.bz2

cd cgminer-4.9.0

./autogen.sh

./configure –enable-gekko --disable-libcurl    (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build)

sudo make install   (you don't have to do the install)

While still in the cgminer-gekko dir,

sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   (if it does not copy,  sudo su enter then  cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   )

sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami        (whoami= your user name you setup)

sudo reboot

After it restarts open terminal

cd cgminer-gekko

sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX

Not familiar with wheezy, but you might be able to copy/past the comands and then just fill,answer,hit enter when it asks.

I'm just using 4.9.2 and running as icarus on all of the sticks.  And sidehack I think is right there is not a compac in 4.9.0 if you were wanting to use compac. 

[Jake36]

Unless something's changed that I'm not aware of, there is no gekko in stock cgminer 4.9.0 so that wget won't help much at all. I think you're gonna want to grab http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz instead, as noted in the first post.

I grabbed the wrong text doc, fixed it now 

[sidehack]

You dropped the "wget" bit.

[Jake36]

You dropped the "wget" bit.

Dang it, that was not the only thing....messed up the directories and stuff also... but looks right now....I hope

[philipma1957]

okay I will give all this a shot later tonight.

I am hoping this works well.

[philipma1957]

I suggest trying a live usb of Debian - https://www.debian.org/.   With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.

But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8.  Went to debian and no issues.   Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.   

With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.

Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t

and the pc will only run the sticks.


so how do I load software like  cgminer.

what link is good to load?

I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus.  You can get a guide pretty close on here - http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/

Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.

Some commands might require sudo in front as root access.   I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.

I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed.   Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev

Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150

okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today.

the guide reads


3) apt-get stuff.
apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

First things first, open terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade   (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter.

After it updates,  sudo reboot  (to be sure updates are active).

Then in terminal window again

sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev
(you may get a message saying you need another package installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above)

Again y/n hit y enter
After it's done,

wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz   (fixed)

tar xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz                                           (fixed)

cd cgminer-gekko                                                           (fixed)

./autogen.sh

./configure –enable-gekko --disable-libcurl    (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build)

sudo make install   (you don't have to do the install)

While still in the cgminer-gekko dir,

sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   (if it does not copy,  sudo su enter then  cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/   )

sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami        (whoami= your user name you setup)

sudo reboot

After it restarts open terminal

cd cgminer-gekko

sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX

Not familiar with wheezy, but you might be able to copy/past the comands and then just fill,answer,hit enter when it asks.

EDIT: fixed

will print this and try it on the debian os.