GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[Biodom]

I'm using solo.ckpool.org and de.ckpool.org as backup

I know that kano.is ckpool does not allow low hashing miners. He disconnects them.
Not sure about solo, but it is run by the same two operators (kano and -ck), as far as I remember.

Per the info on their website their solo pool is geared to sticks and other very low yield miners for lottery mining.

Ok, i stand corrected  .
regular kano.is definetly disconnects low hashing devices.
i don't have any more suggestions..

[1714934987]

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[raiding]

150MHz is working over days

[gt_addict]

So ive got a bitshopper version of the gecko #10000031 (yep an early one) and its suddenly going crazy. Set to 215mhz for the past 12 days and been running at 12Ghs no problem. Until today. It drops out and then when hotplugged it comes back and does 18-20Ghs and a ridiculous high HW Error rate and gets really hot.

Ive hotplugged it few times and each time the same thing. The other two sticks running off the same hub and pi are fine (ive got a fan pointed at all of them too).

Anyone have any ideas?

[sidehack]

I would guess the ASIC is cooked.

[gt_addict]

Well she's had a good life since I've known here. Time to use her as a template for the other two gekkos so I can mount them on a big copper heatsink.

[gt_addict]

Well what d'ya know, she lives!  Albeit at a lower hashrate than before 11.5Ghs avg. Meh, aslong as she chooches and gets shares then so be it.

[enrajrnaki]

I am new. Very new. I downloaded all you linked to. Made changes as supplied.

1) where to extract
2) how to run
3 any other info on running the compact BM1384

Please help. I got to and there connected to a hub.

In devices they do show up. But I cannot make the work

best regards

[ZedZedNova]

1) where to extract
2) how to run
3 any other info on running the compact BM1384

See the first post of this thread. All of these questions are answered.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg12359541#msg12359541

[hurricandave]

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-rev2                                                           (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-rev2

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

   THANKS JAKE36, I just used your post to get my compacs running on Pi3 with Jessie PIXEL build. My first try@Pi. Well, sortof. I've used images I put on SD cards with Windows to auto run things like Rockminers, BTCGardens V2, accessed thru Kitty SSH. Till today I had been using an image of Minera for the Compac's and BROWSING in from windows.
  I added a little EDIT to your instructions because it seems -rev2 is the only change.
   Once again          Thankyou.

[sidehack]

Somewhere on github there exists a cgminer fork with Compac support built right into the Icarus driver. That was sorta VH's "skills test" before working on developing drivers for new stuff, and I think it runs a bit smoother than Novak's original setup. I don't know if he plans to integrage the new 2-chip Compac code into that or not, or just scrap it - we're going to test how well the 2-chip code works by default on an original single-chip stick one of these days.

Someone did put together a Minera image with cgminer-gekko built right in but the link is buried about 90 pages back and might be broken anyway since that was a year ago.

[hurricandave]

I was using the Minera image I got from CrazyGuy till now (has Gekko Version installed) but something went wrong with my hubs and I needed to test on more than one Pi at the same time. I remember some one did a gekko version of cgminer but they were using a Pelltier Cooling system, didn't know what/who the source was.

[ZedZedNova]

we're going to test how well the 2-chip code works by default on an original single-chip stick one of these days.

PM me a link to the code (tarball, github, whatever works as long as I can extract it to my mac) and I can give it try for you.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Somewhere on github there exists a cgminer fork with Compac support built right into the Icarus driver. That was sorta VH's "skills test" before working on developing drivers for new stuff, and I think it runs a bit smoother than Novak's original setup. I don't know if he plans to integrage the new 2-chip Compac code into that or not, or just scrap it - we're going to test how well the 2-chip code works by default on an original single-chip stick one of these days.

Someone did put together a Minera image with cgminer-gekko built right in but the link is buried about 90 pages back and might be broken anyway since that was a year ago.

Ya also should know that BFGminer supports the Compac as well, no outside drivers needed (eg Zaadig) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=877081.0 From what I can tell BFGminer is largely based on OpenWRT.
I use the latest version to run the Compac I got from phillipma, in setup told it to search for miners and bingo found the Compac, runs it fine, can even change freq at will.

btw: it also supports directly running s1, 2, &3's on Pi's...

[gt_addict]

Somewhere on github there exists a cgminer fork with Compac support built right into the Icarus driver. That was sorta VH's "skills test" before working on developing drivers for new stuff, and I think it runs a bit smoother than Novak's original setup. I don't know if he plans to integrage the new 2-chip Compac code into that or not, or just scrap it - we're going to test how well the 2-chip code works by default on an original single-chip stick one of these days.

Someone did put together a Minera image with cgminer-gekko built right in but the link is buried about 90 pages back and might be broken anyway since that was a year ago.

Ya also should know that BFGminer supports the Compac as well, no outside drivers needed (eg Zaadig) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=877081.0 From what I can tell BFGminer is largely based on OpenWRT.
I use the latest version to run the Compac I got from phillipma, in setup told it to search for miners and bingo found the Compac, runs it fine, can even change freq at will.

btw: it also supports directly running s1, 2, &3's on Pi's...

Can you change the freq while it's running?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

On the Compac at least yes. It just stops then restarts the miner @ whatever freq in MHz you typed in when prompted. I never tried on other BM based miners but since the s1-s3 also were using OpenWRT should be the same. Hell, it might even support the s5 since those are where the Compac chips came from...

[gt_addict]

Well that is slightly easier than altering the /etc/rc.local file every time and rebooting.

[sidehack]

That actually makes me think, you wouldn't get temperature data since it uses different data lines but I bet you could drive an S5 board with a USB/UART adapter using vh's new code. That's basically what the stick is, is a 2-chip version of an S5 board.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Well that is slightly easier than altering the /etc/rc.local file every time and rebooting.

Um, ja... Back when I ran my 10GHs BFL cubes I tried using cgminer and for the life of me could not get the hang of it. BFGminer was plug-and-play with a CLI. I do believe there are some 3rd-party GUI programs for it as well.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

That actually makes me think, you wouldn't get temperature data since it uses different data lines but I bet you could drive an S5 board with a USB/UART adapter using vh's new code. That's basically what the stick is, is a 2-chip version of an S5 board.

Well I *do* have one more s5 if you need one to play with...

[gt_addict]

Well that is slightly easier than altering the /etc/rc.local file every time and rebooting.

Um, ja... Back when I ran my 10GHs BFL cubes I tried using cgminer and for the life of me could not get the hang of it. BFGminer was plug-and-play with a CLI. I do believe there are some 3rd-party GUI programs for it as well.

Thanks for the info. I'll install it onto my Pi alongside cgminer gekko rev2  then I can have a choice of what to run my compacs on.