Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon

[ct1aic]

A question to Neil:

As I can't get my Bitfury to work with MinePeon (via GPIO/SPI) using MinePeon's distro, but I have it working with cgminer in a Debian distro sent by the seller, how can I install MinePeon (from the scratch) into that Debian SD, to try to see if MinePeon can "control" that cgminer?

[tk1337]

A question to Neil:

As I can't get my Bitfury to work with MinePeon (via GPIO/SPI) using MinePeon's distro, but I have it working with cgminer in a Debian distro sent by the seller, how can I install MinePeon (from the scratch) into that Debian SD, to try to see if MinePeon can "control" that cgminer?

@ct1aic, I'm going to try to make a build of CGMiner with the drivers they are using. Give me a little bit and I'll PM you a download link so you can try it (since I don't have a unit to test).

[mogrith]

I did some searching in the is thread and saw similar error but not really the same
I'm trying to update from 0.2.3 to current version so I can use remote miner.

minepeon@minepeon /opt/minepeon $ sudo git pull
[sudo] password for minepeon:
remote: Counting objects: 127, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (58/58), done.
remote: Total 96 (delta 43), reused 81 (delta 28)
Unpacking objects: 100% (96/96), done.
From https://github.com/MineForeman/MinePeon
   531d5bf..4eb6c8e  master     -> origin/master
Updating 531d5bf..4eb6c8e
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
        .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting


this is not a commit error as I saw 40 pages back. I'm pretty new at this

[tk1337]

I did some searching in the is thread and saw similar error but not really the same
I'm trying to update from 0.2.3 to current version so I can use remote miner.

minepeon@minepeon /opt/minepeon $ sudo git pull
[sudo] password for minepeon:
remote: Counting objects: 127, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (58/58), done.
remote: Total 96 (delta 43), reused 81 (delta 28)
Unpacking objects: 100% (96/96), done.
From https://github.com/MineForeman/MinePeon
   531d5bf..4eb6c8e  master     -> origin/master
Updating 531d5bf..4eb6c8e
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
        .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting


this is not a commit error as I saw 40 pages back. I'm pretty new at this

If you're trying to update to 0.2.4, you will need to download the image and copy it to the SD card. There's a lot of things that got changed (OS-level) a simple git pull won't suffice.

[ct1aic]

A question to Neil:

As I can't get my Bitfury to work with MinePeon (via GPIO/SPI) using MinePeon's distro, but I have it working with cgminer in a Debian distro sent by the seller, how can I install MinePeon (from the scratch) into that Debian SD, to try to see if MinePeon can "control" that cgminer?

@ct1aic, I'm going to try to make a build of CGMiner with the drivers they are using. Give me a little bit and I'll PM you a download link so you can try it (since I don't have a unit to test).

Hi, tk1337 and thanks for your kind help. I have a RPI only for the Bitfury, at my work and I will try it. No rush. It is mining right now with a distro sent by Miner Factory but I can't get any help from them, even for explaining me what values/files need to be modified to recompile the included cgminer (3.1.1) and get the Bitfury a bit overclocked. I'm getting only 1.96 GH/s and the kit includes a variable power supply module for overclocking.

When compiling bfgminer 3.4.0, for MinePeon, some days ago, I saw it already integrates drivers for Bitfury. I only don't know if it can use the SPI for connection to the ASIC, as I tried it and no device is detected, with the (standard) .conf included with MinePeon.

[tk1337]

A question to Neil:

As I can't get my Bitfury to work with MinePeon (via GPIO/SPI) using MinePeon's distro, but I have it working with cgminer in a Debian distro sent by the seller, how can I install MinePeon (from the scratch) into that Debian SD, to try to see if MinePeon can "control" that cgminer?

@ct1aic, I'm going to try to make a build of CGMiner with the drivers they are using. Give me a little bit and I'll PM you a download link so you can try it (since I don't have a unit to test).

Hi, tk1337 and thanks for your kind help. I have a RPI only for the Bitfury, at my work and I will try it. No rush. It is mining right now with a distro sent by Miner Factory but I can't get any help from them, even for explaining me what values/files need to be modified to recompile the included cgminer (3.1.1) and get the Bitfury a bit overclocked. I'm getting only 1.96 GH/s and the kit includes a variable power supply module for overclocking.

When compiling bfgminer 3.4.0, for MinePeon, some days ago, I saw it already integrates drivers for Bitfury. I only don't know if it can use the SPI for connection to the ASIC, as I tried it and no device is detected, with the (standard) .conf included with MinePeon.

Well, they are including spidevc as well as bitfury drivers... which my attempts yesterday to compile failed because of the spidevc, I'm trying to figure out if it's attempting to look for a spi device upon the build process or what, actually just had an idea.

[mogrith]

I did some searching in the is thread and saw similar error but not really the same
I'm trying to update from 0.2.3 to current version so I can use remote miner.

minepeon@minepeon /opt/minepeon $ sudo git pull
[sudo] password for minepeon:
remote: Counting objects: 127, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (58/58), done.
remote: Total 96 (delta 43), reused 81 (delta 28)
Unpacking objects: 100% (96/96), done.
From https://github.com/MineForeman/MinePeon
   531d5bf..4eb6c8e  master     -> origin/master
Updating 531d5bf..4eb6c8e
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
        .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting


this is not a commit error as I saw 40 pages back. I'm pretty new at this

Removed .gitignore

Then it worked. I'm on 2.4 now

[tk1337]

I did some searching in the is thread and saw similar error but not really the same
I'm trying to update from 0.2.3 to current version so I can use remote miner.

minepeon@minepeon /opt/minepeon $ sudo git pull
[sudo] password for minepeon:
remote: Counting objects: 127, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (58/58), done.
remote: Total 96 (delta 43), reused 81 (delta 28)
Unpacking objects: 100% (96/96), done.
From https://github.com/MineForeman/MinePeon
   531d5bf..4eb6c8e  master     -> origin/master
Updating 531d5bf..4eb6c8e
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
        .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting


this is not a commit error as I saw 40 pages back. I'm pretty new at this

Removed .gitignore

Then it worked. I'm on 2.4 now

There's a lot of OS files that aren't in the repo. so while you updated some of the files, it didn't install the services, permissions, and other things that make 0.2.4 more stable. However it did update your /opt/minepeon/etc/version file, which contains the version (as that is in the repo), which doesn't do anything, you also got the update WebUI and a few other things (as they are in the repo). I would suggest you download the image and write it to a SD Card, to actually upgrade to 0.2.4, without properly doing this you more than likely will run into issues later on.

[MineForeman.com]

A question to Neil:

As I can't get my Bitfury to work with MinePeon (via GPIO/SPI) using MinePeon's distro, but I have it working with cgminer in a Debian distro sent by the seller, how can I install MinePeon (from the scratch) into that Debian SD, to try to see if MinePeon can "control" that cgminer?

Why does my "watch" for this tread keep falling off??

I am going to have another go at the spi drivers this weekend.  If you could test them for me it would be great.

Neil

[tk1337]

A question to Neil:

As I can't get my Bitfury to work with MinePeon (via GPIO/SPI) using MinePeon's distro, but I have it working with cgminer in a Debian distro sent by the seller, how can I install MinePeon (from the scratch) into that Debian SD, to try to see if MinePeon can "control" that cgminer?

Why does my "watch" for this tread keep falling off??

I am going to have another go at the spi drivers this weekend.  If you could test them for me it would be great.

Neil

He got it working sort-of... had a few permission issues and the WebUI isn't reporting the device, however CGMiner is... I asked for screenshots so I could try to help troubleshoot, he'll be sending them tomorrow (as he already left the location his miner is at).

[mogrith]

thanks making new image now.

[teletobi]

I can't get 0.2.4 to run on my PasPi.
I tried two different SD Cards, about five Installations and made a new Download from source forge, but Minepeon won't show up in my Router nor in the Browser.

Finally changed the RasPis: One is working with 0.2.3 but not 0.2.4. The other is working with 0.2.4, haven't tried 0.2.3. Known Issue???

[Blood Ninja]

Just got 2 BlueFurys and installed MinePeon 0.2.4

Getting Brutal Error rates 58.25% & 57.37% with bfgminer.


These are my settings - - - - Any suggestions?

 #!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bigpic:all -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

MinePeon Version
    MinePeon 0.2.4
Miner Version
    bfgminer3.4.0
Donation Minutes
    15


Devices
Name    ID    Temp    MH/s    Accept    Reject    Error    Utility    Last Share
BPM           0    N/A    2161.611    17    0 [0%]    60 [58.25%]    11.989    20:01:22
BPM    1    N/A    2273.376    10    0 [0%]    61 [56.48%]    7.052    20:00:59
Totals    2       4434.987    27    0 [0%]    121 [57.37%]    19.041

[wttbs]

 I am trying to get the Hashbuster Nano running on Minepeon.

I want to compile a modified version of cgminer. One thing I cant get working: I need to install ElectricFence. On Ubuntu and Debian it easily installs with sudo apt-get install electric-fence dh-autoreconf . But on Minepon I can install it with apt-get or pacman.

I found this file: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electricfence/?setlang=nl

But when I want to do a Make:

Code:

[minepeon@minepeon ElectricFence-2.2.2]$ sudo make
[sudo] password for minepeon: 

Testing Electric Fence.
After the last test, it should print that the test has PASSED.
./eftest

  Electric Fence 2.2.0 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>
Makefile:20: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Can anybody help with getting this to work ? thanks

It works on Debian and Ubuntu: http://miningonmyown.com/2013/10/27/manual-cgminer-for-hashbuster/

[Pentel]

I get this error when I switch on my pi:


Does this mean I need to use a WiFi adapter instead of it being wired?

Again, sorry.  It's me, god you can tell I'm a noob               

[BitMinerN8]

I get this error when I switch on my pi:


Does this mean I need to use a WiFi adapter instead of it being wired?

Again, sorry.  It's me, god you can tell I'm a noob               

If you are not using wi-fi, you're good. It just means that it's loading the driver, for those that need the wi-fi, but if you don't have it, it's a harmless error.

[Pentel]

Thanks for that.
Got it up and working with ease   with me 2 jala's, hopefully my LS will be here by the end of the month  
And I don't mind the donation level of 15 minutes a day, small price to pay really for a great easy to use piece of software 

[MineForeman.com]

I am trying to get the Hashbuster Nano running on Minepeon.

I want to compile a modified version of cgminer. One thing I cant get working: I need to install ElectricFence. On Ubuntu and Debian it easily installs with sudo apt-get install electric-fence dh-autoreconf . But on Minepon I can install it with apt-get or pacman.

I found this file: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electricfence/?setlang=nl

But when I want to do a Make:

Code:

[minepeon@minepeon ElectricFence-2.2.2]$ sudo make
[sudo] password for minepeon: 

Testing Electric Fence.
After the last test, it should print that the test has PASSED.
./eftest

  Electric Fence 2.2.0 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>
Makefile:20: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Can anybody help with getting this to work ? thanks

It works on Debian and Ubuntu: http://miningonmyown.com/2013/10/27/manual-cgminer-for-hashbuster/

Where did you get your device?  I really should dip into the donation funds and get one so I can start to support it.

Neil

[tk1337]

If anyone is having high Hardware Errors while using BlueFury miners, I compiled a build of BFGMiner 3.2.0 (the same version Beastlymac suggests for Ubuntu 13.10) in MinePeon 0.2.4, just tried it out, getting ZERO hardware errors (just like I was on Ubuntu 13.10).

Code:

wget http://256mining.com/downloads/minepeon_bfgminer-fury.tgz
tar -xvf minepeon_bfgminer-fury.tgz
cp bfgminer-fury /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer-fury

Then change your 'Miner Startup Settings' to:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer-fury -S bitfury:/dev/ttyACM0 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

^ If you are using only BlueFury miners, just having the single -S bitfury:/dev/ttyACM0 in that line, it will detect all BlueFury Miners, however, if you plan on running BlueFury Miners and Erupters, you will need to list each device individually like below.

Example of 1x BlueFury Miner, 2x USB Erupter Miners:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer-fury -S bitfury:/dev/ttyACM0 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB0 -S ICA:/dev/ttyUSB1 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

(Again, you still have to specify each device...)

To find your device names/list your devices:

For Erupters:

Code:

ls /dev/ttyUSB*

For BlueFury Miners:

Code:

ls /dev/ttyACM*

[mogrith]

Thanks tk1337,

My BF's should be in Monday. Want to put them in my Minepeon rig this will help a lot.