GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[sidehack]

First thing to check is if you're using a Compac, or a 2Pac.

[sidehack]

I would start with:

Firstly, and secondly, and thirdly -

Here, let me spell it out for you. By quoting some replies about six inches above what you just posted. Because apparently people can't read anymore.

I'm having troubles getting the 2Pac Stick to work.
...
What's wrong?

Try on this message thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.0

First off, it looks like you need the 2Pac support thread since you're running a 2Pac.

My first piece of advice would be to check in the 2Pac support thread, since you're running 2Pacs.

I would recommend abandoning this thread and looking elsewhere.

Specifically, the 2Pac support thread.

The software discussed in this thread is two years old. The 2Pac thread is fresh, and includes both a new build of cgminer and a completely rewritten driver that also supports the Compac and does it better than this one ever did.

Advice step number 1 - go read the first post of the 2Pac support thread as referenced above.

It'll point you toward better software. That'll probably help.

Because you're running a 2Pac.

I think at this point I'll just stop telling people that, if you're running a 2Pac, you want to check out the 2Pac support thread.

[JMONE]

Hello,

I am having some issues setting up the overclock.

I know I am a total newb. I got the usbs working but every time I try to execute the commands in the

settings
>
Write config

It crashes the cg miner.

Am I supposed to place those commands in a txt file somewhere or?

[sidehack]

Known issue. Use a batch file instead.

[user356546]

So I am running into an issue after updating my raspberry Pi to the latest version of Raspbian Stretch. When I attempt to use Novak's instructions, the "make" command ends with this.

Code:

lib/libgnu.a: error adding symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:787: recipe for target 'cgminer' failed
make[2]: *** [cgminer] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/user/cgminer-gekko-rev2'
Makefile:1486: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/cgminer-gekko-rev2'
Makefile:691: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas what could be going wrong? I was able to get each of the other commands to work correctly. Any help would be appreciate.

[sidehack]

I recommend you jump over to the 2Pac Support thread and get VH's cgminer instead. It supports the Compac and is a heck of a lot better than Novak's original driver.

[user356546]

I recommend you jump over to the 2Pac Support thread and get VH's cgminer instead. It supports the Compac and is a heck of a lot better than Novak's original driver.

This one? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.0

Thanks for the help.

[sidehack]

Since you're running 2Pacs, not Compacs:

I would start with:

Firstly, and secondly, and thirdly -

Here, let me spell it out for you. By quoting some replies about six inches above what you just posted. Because apparently people can't read anymore.

I'm having troubles getting the 2Pac Stick to work.
...
What's wrong?

Try on this message thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.0

First off, it looks like you need the 2Pac support thread since you're running a 2Pac.

My first piece of advice would be to check in the 2Pac support thread, since you're running 2Pacs.

I would recommend abandoning this thread and looking elsewhere.

Specifically, the 2Pac support thread.

The software discussed in this thread is two years old. The 2Pac thread is fresh, and includes both a new build of cgminer and a completely rewritten driver that also supports the Compac and does it better than this one ever did.

Advice step number 1 - go read the first post of the 2Pac support thread as referenced above.

It'll point you toward better software. That'll probably help.

Because you're running a 2Pac.

I think at this point I'll just stop telling people that, if you're running a 2Pac, you want to check out the 2Pac support thread.

[collettd101]

Have 5 GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer in a USB hub but cgminer only runs one of them.  Looked all over the University of Google and have come up with nothing on how to configure cgminer to use all 5 stickminers.  Anyone have a URL to a guide for how to fix this?

[sidehack]

Check out the first post of the 2Pac support thread. It'll give you better software and directions, and everything there is backward-compatible with the original Compac.

[scottginther]

Question:
I have a geekscience 2pac usb running cgminer on a windows 10 laptop using Slushpool.
Everything is working fine.
However the clock speed is 100(by default) and I want to increase this.
How is this done?

When I run cgminer the black window pops up and says url
then I type
stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333
then
username.worker
then
password

where would i type the clock speed? or is it done on the slushpool website?

Q. How can I set a different frequency for the 2Pac vs the Compac?

cgminer will accept one or both parameters for the stick.
--gekko-compac-freq 200 --gekko-2pac-freq 150

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.0

[madpitbull]

cant get cgminer to download and I cannot get this work.  getting discouraged

[sidehack]

Check out the first post of the 2Pac support thread. It'll give you better software and directions, and everything there is backward-compatible with the original Compac.

[Woodstokc]

Hi to all,

I'm actually using it at 300mHz and is running up to 40Ghs but the average is around 30-35 gHs.
I would like to ask you guys here, if there is any coin you are able to mine with some concret results.
After 3 week on slushpool for bitcoin, I'm at around 5% of minimum threshold.And is gonna be about 0.001BTC
I tried then multi pool, to mine Digibyte, after a full day, totally zero. Was looking like the difficulty was like 700-900M and I wasn't able to get any share, so just new block and new difficulty, nothing else, a full day lost.
Always on multi pool, I'm trying right now to mine mazacoin, MZC, look like as per difficulty level is the only one I could get, but only cryptopia work with this coin, and the website is still not accepting any new account since December.
Do anybody knows how comes I'm able to mine the BTC, with it huge difficulty, but not able to mine digibyte?
I do believe that is something wrong about the level of difficulty, and I don't know how to solve it.
Any suggestion about?
Or what you guys mine whit the Gekko??

Thank you in advance!

Andrea

[sidehack]

I'm actually using it at 300mHz and is running up to 40Ghs but the average is around 30-35 gHs.

No you don't, unless you're using 2 sticks. However, since the original Compac discussed in this thread went out of production over a year ago it's more likely you're using a single 2Pac, you should probably use the 2Pac support thread instead.

That said, stickminers will very likely never be profitable. They're learning tools, or lottery miners (mining solo), or unofficially and unfortunately, a way for greedy resellers to fleece people.

[philipma1957]

I point mine at bravo-mining.

He gives a 1 btc bonus if you hit the block.

I don’t expect to make a profit on them but if I do it is okay.

[klintay]

Hi to all,

I'm actually using it at 300mHz and is running up to 40Ghs but the average is around 30-35 gHs.
I would like to ask you guys here, if there is any coin you are able to mine with some concret results.
After 3 week on slushpool for bitcoin, I'm at around 5% of minimum threshold.And is gonna be about 0.001BTC
I tried then multi pool, to mine Digibyte, after a full day, totally zero. Was looking like the difficulty was like 700-900M and I wasn't able to get any share, so just new block and new difficulty, nothing else, a full day lost.
Always on multi pool, I'm trying right now to mine mazacoin, MZC, look like as per difficulty level is the only one I could get, but only cryptopia work with this coin, and the website is still not accepting any new account since December.
Do anybody knows how comes I'm able to mine the BTC, with it huge difficulty, but not able to mine digibyte?
I do believe that is something wrong about the level of difficulty, and I don't know how to solve it.
Any suggestion about?
Or what you guys mine whit the Gekko??

Thank you in advance!

Andrea

wow! 300mhz and 40gh is pretty awesome, can you post some pics of your setup. would be much appreciated

[bodcat42]

So I have what I thought was going to be a simple set up. A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, a D-Link Powered USB Hub and a Gekko USB miner. However, I am only getting hashrates of around 500MH/s. Way lower that the 15GH/s advertised.

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

[sidehack]

I think it's safe to say at this point that nobody who posts questions in this thread is using a Compac. Since the Compac went out of production well over a year ago, and since then we've made about four times as many 2Pacs.

And then there's the consideration that, even if it's a Compac in question, the 2Pac driver and cgminer are a couple years newer and much much better and with current support.

So, maybe people should just stop posting in this thread. And instead go over to the 2Pac Support Thread for questions about 2Pacs. And maybe consider searching in it just a bit before posting questions because almost all of them have been asked already. Especially if the issue is you're using stock cgminer without 2Pac support and your stick is enumerating as an AMU with a ridiculously low hashrate.

So, 2Pac users, please let this thread die. Go somewhere with current (and actual pertinent) information, where the name of your product is in the title.

[earlmo]

Okay then, my apologies to anyone I may wake up by posting.  That's cute, there's a warning about waking stale topics.

My windows 10 just upgraded to 1803 and my compacs have dropped in hashrate.  Anyone have a similar experience?

Yes, compacs, not 2pac.

Yes, 1803, not 1809 (I like to delay as much as possible).

With the upgrade to 1803, I had to reinstall zadig, which had been upgraded since I originally installed it.  After noticing the decrease in hashrate (5.5% on each unit) I dug out and applied my older version of zadig, but to no avail.

The version of cgminer as well as the batch file used to lauch it have not changed.  Next stop will be the multimeter if nobody else has noticed the drop.

What?  I like these little guys.

.earl