Avalon ASIC users thread

[r7970]

I yanked the network cable out of my 4 module and now I can't connect. I'm worried I ruined th TPlink. I have the blue light on the network port and a solid yellow and green light.

Can somebody help me get hashing again. I'll tip .02 btc, can I connect directly to the hash card with the usb cable?

Thanks

[Tehfiend]

Can one friendly soul measure the original packing box for the avalon mini? and what where their weights? 11kgs/pc?
ill be sending a few on monday morning. if i hear nothing from anyone of you ill buy a scale and measure tape tomorrow. two things i currently do not own.

I'm on nights at the moment if no one comes back with the info I get them for you but it will not be till Sunday morning around. 7am uk time

would appreciate that greatly!
got a tape, 50cm long 29cm high and 36cm  wide measures the original avalon mini box.
weight i think was 11kgs?

I shipped some mini's last month and exact weight in original packaging was 10.43kg.

[ProfMac]

I yanked the network cable out of my 4 module and now I can't connect. I'm worried I ruined th TPlink. I have the blue light on the network port and a solid yellow and green light.

Can somebody help me get hashing again. I'll tip .02 btc, can I connect directly to the hash card with the usb cable?

Thanks

Can you attach a WiFi antenna and connect that way?

[aneutronic]

I yanked the network cable out of my 4 module and now I can't connect. I'm worried I ruined th TPlink. I have the blue light on the network port and a solid yellow and green light.

Can somebody help me get hashing again. I'll tip .02 btc, can I connect directly to the hash card with the usb cable?

Thanks

First, did you try a new cable to verify whether the router is damaged?

If so, you can replace the router with a laptop or a raspberry pi.

Use a printer style usb cable to connect to the usb B plug on the fpga controller board.

If using something with a powered usb port like a pc you need to remove the jumper J2 on the fpga board.

If using an rpi just leave it the jumper in place and do not power the rpi, it will draw power through the B port like the Tplink.

[r7970]

i installed cgminer, connected the usb cable to laptop when  I run cgminer I get this.

[2013-12-11 15:12:27] Started cgminer 3.8.5
 [2013-12-11 15:12:27] AVA0: Reset succeeded (Controller version: 2000000000)
 [2013-12-11 15:12:27] AVA0: Idling 32 miners
 [2013-12-11 15:12:27] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-12-11 15:12:28] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 2
 [2013-12-11 15:12:28] Network diff set to 908M
 [2013-12-11 15:13:04] AVA0: Result return rate low, resetting!
 [2013-12-11 15:13:04] AVA0 reset sequence sent
 [2013-12-11 15:13:04] AVA0: Idling 2 miners
 [2013-12-11 15:13:23] AVA0: Result return rate low, resetting!
 [2013-12-11 15:13:23] AVA0 reset sequence sent
 [2013-12-11 15:13:23] AVA0: Idling 1 miners


and another time

[2013-12-11 15:16:45] Started cgminer 3.8.5
 [2013-12-11 15:16:46] AVA0: Reset succeeded (Controller version: 2000000000)
 [2013-12-11 15:16:46] AVA0: Idling 32 miners
 [2013-12-11 15:16:46] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-12-11 15:16:47] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 2
 [2013-12-11 15:16:47] Network diff set to 908M

[r7970]

Thanks guys I got it hashing connected directly to cgminer on a linux laptop. I didn't remove the jumper from the FPGA. Its nice to know these things are easy to run without TP-LINK TL-WR703N.

[aneutronic]

Thanks guys I got it hashing connected directly to cgminer on a linux laptop. I didn't remove the jumper from the FPGA. Its nice to know these things are easy to run without TP-LINK TL-WR703N.

With the jumper installed you are supplying power to both ends of the usb cable afaik and according to the schematic.
Not healthy for the controller or the laptop. You might want to check for hot spots on the controller.

Is it running ok on 3.8.5?
I haven't tried that version yet and my batch 3 choked on 3.8.4.
I'm running 3.8.3 right now which has given me the best results so far.

[inevertell]

Hi all,

I have a 4 module avalon. I am wondering, for about 2 months I have run -auto with absolute success.

I haven't had more than a 1/2 hour of downtime due to power outage.

Now the miner is reporting DH 5.41%

It was hovering about 1-2 for the longest time.

Anything I can do to fix this? What could be the problem?

Thank you in advance.

[SolarSilver]

Hi all,

I have a 4 module avalon. I am wondering, for about 2 months I have run -auto with absolute success.

I haven't had more than a 1/2 hour of downtime due to power outage.

Now the miner is reporting DH 5.41%

it happens sometimes. I have a few systems that shoot up to 20% or worse hardware errors. They are flawless otherwize

Just do a software reboot of the machine and it usually fixes it. In the worst case, just power it down
and boot it up after 20 seconds

[inevertell]

Hi all,

I have a 4 module avalon. I am wondering, for about 2 months I have run -auto with absolute success.

I haven't had more than a 1/2 hour of downtime due to power outage.

Now the miner is reporting DH 5.41%

it happens sometimes. I have a few systems that shoot up to 20% or worse hardware errors. They are flawless otherwize

Just do a software reboot of the machine and it usually fixes it. In the worst case, just power it down
and boot it up after 20 seconds

I did reboot and things were ok for about 10 min then it moved back up to ~4%
Oh well, doesn't seem to be reporting anything weird on my pool hash rate..

Guess i'll try to ignore it.
Thanks!

[bitcoinluke]

hey guys,

i have a dedicated business dsl connection (ethernet) plugged into my avalon miner (batch 3 110 Gh/s), but at least 3-4 times a day it goes offline (yellow light) and i have to manually power off and on each time to get it back online. 

running cgiminer version:  3.3.1-1
Firmware Version    OpenWrt Barrier Breaker r37008 / LuCI Trunk (svn-r9844)
Kernel Version   3.8.13

any ideas at all?

[SolarSilver]

I did reboot and things were ok for about 10 min then it moved back up to ~4%
Oh well, doesn't seem to be reporting anything weird on my pool hash rate..

Guess i'll try to ignore it.

Here is a view of the stats on BTC guild of 3 machines where some of them flip flop (even if they are not in the same building)



after a while I got tired of chasing down when it happened and let the systems correct by themselves. Sometimes the cgminer process restarts, sometimes I reboot the machines.

[SolarSilver]

hey guys,

i have a dedicated business dsl connection (ethernet) plugged into my avalon miner (batch 3 110 Gh/s), but at least 3-4 times a day it goes offline (yellow light) and i have to manually power off and on each time to get it back online. 

running cgiminer version:  3.3.1-1
Firmware Version    OpenWrt Barrier Breaker r37008 / LuCI Trunk (svn-r9844)
Kernel Version   3.8.13

any ideas at all?

when it goes offline, I guess the pool notifies you?

When you log in, what does the Stats tab tell you about the system status? What is happening on the machine?

[bitcoinluke]

hey guys,

i have a dedicated business dsl connection (ethernet) plugged into my avalon miner (batch 3 110 Gh/s), but at least 3-4 times a day it goes offline (yellow light) and i have to manually power off and on each time to get it back online. 

running cgiminer version:  3.3.1-1
Firmware Version    OpenWrt Barrier Breaker r37008 / LuCI Trunk (svn-r9844)
Kernel Version   3.8.13

any ideas at all?

when it goes offline, I guess the pool notifies you?

When you log in, what does the Stats tab tell you about the system status? What is happening on the machine?

i use slush's pool and i don't think there is a status down notification option there, but correct me if i'm wrong.  the only way i know is literally by trying to connect to the gui remotely or walking into my office and seeing that yellow light which indicates that it's not mining. 

as far as system state, when i look at the logs i see this:

Thu Dec 12 23:16:43 2013 daemon.error netifd: lan (656): Sending renew...
Thu Dec 12 23:16:44 2013 daemon.error netifd: lan (656): Lease of 192.168.0.98 obtained, lease time 3600
Thu Dec 12 23:18:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 21633 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:20:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 21784 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:22:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 21935 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:24:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 22086 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:26:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 22237 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:28:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 22386 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:30:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 22537 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:32:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 22688 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:34:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 22839 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:36:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 22990 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:38:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 23141 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:40:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 23380 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:42:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 23531 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:44:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 23682 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:46:01 2013 news.info crond[842]: crond: USER root pid 23833 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
Thu Dec 12 23:46:44 2013 daemon.error netifd: lan (656): Sending renew...
Thu Dec 12 23:46:45 2013 daemon.error netifd: lan (656): Lease of 192.168.0.98 obtained, lease time 3600

that's from the syslog, but i'm not sure where else i should be looking?  if the machine was overheating, the entire thing would shut down right?  in this scenario, the machine is still always on and running, just not connected and mining.

[SolarSilver]

i use slush's pool and i don't think there is a status down notification option there, but correct me if i'm wrong.  the only way i know is literally by trying to connect to the gui remotely or walking into my office and seeing that yellow light which indicates that it's not mining. 

Use the GUI (web interface):

Status -> Cgminer API Log

Code:

[Firmware Version] => 20130821
cgminer-70bc62c
luci-d854edc+
cgminer-openwrt-packages-800cc58
Reply was 'STATUS=S,When=1386912144,Code=70,Msg=CGMiner stats,Description=cgminer 3.4.0|STATS=0,ID=AVA0,Elapsed=222373,Calls=0,Wait=0.000000,Max=0.000000,Min=99999999.000000,baud=115200,miner_count=24,asic_count=10,timeout=33,frequency=378,fan1=0,fan2=3360,fan3=3360,temp1=18,temp2=-1,temp3=39,temp_max=46,Device Hardware%=2.1790,no_matching_work=18783,match_work_count1=192589,match_work_count2=193117,match_work_count3=193468,match_work_count4=193578,match_work_count5=192824,match_work_count6=193787,match_work_count7=192508,match_work_count8=193177,match_work_count9=192971,match_work_count10=192474,match_work_count11=192101,match_work_count12=193837,match_work_count13=192385,match_work_count14=192772,match_work_count15=193071,match_work_count16=193013,match_work_count17=193155,match_work_count18=192878,match_work_count19=193032,match_work_count20=192586,match_work_count21=193136,match_work_count22=193878,match_work_count23=192415,match_work_count24=193948,USB Pipe=0,USB Delay=r0 0.000000 w0 0.000000,USB tmo=30621698 50=1/104/104/86/18 100=2/126/134/224/36 500=0/0/0/0/0 |STATS=1,ID=POOL0,Elapsed=222373,Calls=0,Wait=0.000000,Max=0.000000,Min=99999999.000000,Pool Calls=0,Pool Attempts=0,Pool Wait=0.000000,Pool Max=0.000000,Pool Min=99999999.000000,Pool Av=0.000000,Work Had Roll Time=false,Work Can Roll=false,Work Had Expire=false,Work Roll Time=0,Work Diff=64.00000000,Min Diff=64.00000000,Max Diff=64.00000000,Min Diff Count=4650741,Max Diff Count=4650741,Times Sent=70966,Bytes Sent=8479356,Times Recv=79040,Bytes Recv=11930165,Net Bytes Sent=8480075,Net Bytes Recv=11930165|STATS=2,ID=POOL1,Elapsed=222373,Calls=0,Wait=0.000000,Max=0.000000,Min=99999999.000000,Pool Calls=744,Pool Attempts=744,Pool Wait=153.262791,Pool Max=0.619165,Pool Min=0.161109,Pool Av=0.212781,Work Had Roll Time=false,Work Can Roll=false,Work Had Expire=false,Work Roll Time=0,Work Diff=4.00000000,Min Diff=4.00000000,Max Diff=4.00000000,Min Diff Count=748,Max Diff Count=748,Times Sent=990,Bytes Sent=106480,Times Recv=990,Bytes Recv=415338,Net Bytes Sent=408109,Net Bytes Recv=645429|'
[STATUS] =>
(
   [STATUS] => S
   [When] => 1386912144
   [Code] => 70
   [Msg] => CGMiner stats
   [Description] => cgminer 3.4.0
)
[STATS0] =>
(
   [STATS] => 0
   [ID] => AVA0
   [Elapsed] => 222373
   [Calls] => 0
   [Wait] => 0.000000
   [Max] => 0.000000
   [Min] => 99999999.000000
   [baud] => 115200
   [miner_count] => 24
   [asic_count] => 10
   [timeout] => 33
   [frequency] => 378
   [fan1] => 0
   [fan2] => 3360
   [fan3] => 3360
   [temp1] => 18
   [temp2] => -1
   [temp3] => 39
   [temp_max] => 46
   [Device Hardware%] => 2.1790
   [no_matching_work] => 18783
   [match_work_count1] => 192589
   [match_work_count2] => 193117
   [match_work_count3] => 193468
   [match_work_count4] => 193578
   [match_work_count5] => 192824
   [match_work_count6] => 193787
   [match_work_count7] => 192508
   [match_work_count8] => 193177
   [match_work_count9] => 192971

[/code]

[-ck]

running cgiminer version:  3.3.1-1

Stop using an ancient cgminer?

[willids]

Anyone know how to reset Avalon Mini 60Gh when there is no access to the web interface.

I have set it up with a ethernet cross over but still nothing on 192.168.0.100 or 192.168.0.101

Already Done this

You need to set your computer IP address to 192.168.0.1, subnet 255.255.255.0 and leave everything else blank. Then apply the settings, and make sure your computer and the Avalon are plugged into the same network and then open up IE or Chrome and go to 192.168.0.100 or http://192.168.0.100/ and you should be able to log into your Avalon.

And no joy.

[ProfMac]

Anyone know how to reset Avalon Mini 60Gh when there is no access to the web interface.

I have set it up with a ethernet cross over but still nothing on 192.168.0.100 or 192.168.0.101

Already Done this

You need to set your computer IP address to 192.168.0.1, subnet 255.255.255.0 and leave everything else blank. Then apply the settings, and make sure your computer and the Avalon are plugged into the same network and then open up IE or Chrome and go to 192.168.0.100 or http://192.168.0.100/ and you should be able to log into your Avalon.

And no joy.

There may be a pin hole near the LAN socket.  When you are powering up the device, you can depress the switch inside this pin hole.  For more instructions about timing and the resulting IP address, Google for OpenWRT fail safe.

[willids]

Anyone know how to reset Avalon Mini 60Gh when there is no access to the web interface.

I have set it up with a ethernet cross over but still nothing on 192.168.0.100 or 192.168.0.101

Already Done this

You need to set your computer IP address to 192.168.0.1, subnet 255.255.255.0 and leave everything else blank. Then apply the settings, and make sure your computer and the Avalon are plugged into the same network and then open up IE or Chrome and go to 192.168.0.100 or http://192.168.0.100/ and you should be able to log into your Avalon.

And no joy.

There may be a pin hole near the LAN socket.  When you are powering up the device, you can depress the switch inside this pin hole.  For more instructions about timing and the resulting IP address, Google for OpenWRT fail safe.

Many thanks, is there any info on how to set a static ip as the ip on our router is 192.168.1.1 so need to set static so I can connect it to that network

[ProfMac]

Anyone know how to reset Avalon Mini 60Gh when there is no access to the web interface.

I have set it up with a ethernet cross over but still nothing on 192.168.0.100 or 192.168.0.101

Already Done this

You need to set your computer IP address to 192.168.0.1, subnet 255.255.255.0 and leave everything else blank. Then apply the settings, and make sure your computer and the Avalon are plugged into the same network and then open up IE or Chrome and go to 192.168.0.100 or http://192.168.0.100/ and you should be able to log into your Avalon.

And no joy.

There may be a pin hole near the LAN socket.  When you are powering up the device, you can depress the switch inside this pin hole.  For more instructions about timing and the resulting IP address, Google for OpenWRT fail safe.

Many thanks, is there any info on how to set a static ip as the ip on our router is 192.168.1.1 so need to set static so I can connect it to that network

I view the fail-safe as an emergency backup that may require other non-standard accommodation.  All the instructions are written from the viewpoint that you have a "laptop."  Do the next question is, do you have a virtual machine running linux or an actual laptop?  You will need to connect directly between the laptop and the tp-link.