OLD: BFGMiner 3.10.0: modular ASIC+FPGA, GBT+Strtm, RPC, Mac/Lnx/W64, AntU1, DRB

[HellDiverUK]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

[Shammasterb]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated

[HellDiverUK]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated

I all out of ideas, sorry.

[xyzzy099]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated

Maybe the problem now is that you don't have a conf file, and are not completely specifying the url:port and user/pass for your pool on the command line?

[Luke-Jr]

Please use http://luke.dashjr.org/tmp/code/webisect/webisect.php for regressions.

[Mudbankkeith]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated

Maybe the problem now is that you don't have a conf file, and are not completely specifying the url:port and user/pass for your pool on the command line?

Try installing this .bat file in the same directory as your BFGMiner     https://www.dropbox.com/s/39mcq8pb3zo7gkf/StartMiningExample.bat

Then make a shortcut to the batch from your desktop

[Shammasterb]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated

Maybe the problem now is that you don't have a conf file, and are not completely specifying the url:port and user/pass for your pool on the command line?

Try installing this .bat file in the same directory as your BFGMiner     https://www.dropbox.com/s/39mcq8pb3zo7gkf/StartMiningExample.bat

Then make a shortcut to the batch from your desktop

 
It starts recongizes my devices than everything goes blank, that's farther than I got on my own.

[Mudbankkeith]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated

Maybe the problem now is that you don't have a conf file, and are not completely specifying the url:port and user/pass for your pool on the command line?

Try installing this .bat file in the same directory as your BFGMiner     https://www.dropbox.com/s/39mcq8pb3zo7gkf/StartMiningExample.bat

Then make a shortcut to the batch from your desktop

 
It starts recongizes my devices than everything goes blank, that's farther than I got on my own.

BFGMiner3.6.0 does take a while longer to start up than earlier versions

[Shammasterb]

what should I check next?

How to upgrade to a recent version?

Good one Helldiver
But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed  Now they all just hang when I start them.

Have you tried clearing out your .conf file?  Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf...

me too...   back up and remove that .conf

I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing.  I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. 

Where is bfgminer?  If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue.

Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps.

That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated

Maybe the problem now is that you don't have a conf file, and are not completely specifying the url:port and user/pass for your pool on the command line?

Try installing this .bat file in the same directory as your BFGMiner     https://www.dropbox.com/s/39mcq8pb3zo7gkf/StartMiningExample.bat

Then make a shortcut to the batch from your desktop

 
It starts recongizes my devices than everything goes blank, that's farther than I got on my own.

BFGMiner3.6.0 does take a while longer to start up than earlier versions

I figured it out! it was my firewall that the tech from Comcast who set it on the highest level.

[Zich]

With version 3.6.0, nanofury more stable & reach 2 Gh/s.



Now waiting for someone to make HIDAPI package for openwrt  

[HellDiverUK]

OK, got 3.6.0 on.  Had to do it manually, rather than via LuCI.  

Still showing 100% errors.  

Edit: Did you get around the hidapi thing then?

Luke-Jr, any ideas?  Still no-go here.

[pluMmet]

I use:

screen -dmS bfg bfgminer <your command options>

Then whenever I log in,  to connect to the BFG instance, just use:

screen -x bfg



Hope this helps.

I'm guessing you were unaware of my level of n00b   

This string placed into the Terminal window did not work:

sudo screen -dmS bfg bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u <address> -p <pass> -S all


What have I missed in your example?

[BitMinerN8]

I use:

screen -dmS bfg bfgminer <your command options>

Then whenever I log in,  to connect to the BFG instance, just use:

screen -x bfg



Hope this helps.

I'm guessing you were unaware of my level of n00b   

This string placed into the Terminal window did not work:

sudo screen -dmS bfg bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u <address> -p <pass> -S all


What have I missed in your example?

Make sure you are in the directory with the bfgminer executable and try this: (note the ./ in front of it)

Code:

sudo screen -dmS bfg ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u <address> -p <pass> -S all

Then:

Code:

sudo screen -r bfg

to connect to it. To release the session, hold CTRL-A, tap D.

[xyzzy099]

Mr. Luke-jr, I have a (possibly very ignorant) question for you.

BFGMiner obviously understands GBT.  Bitcoind/bitcoin-qt also understands GBT.

This being the case, why is it necessary to have pool software that understands GBT between my miner and my bitcoind if I want to solo mine using GBT ?  Why can't that functionality be built into the miner?

[Digi128pci]

Hi,

I try to get TECHNOBIT NANO FURRY working on ras pi:

I installed HIDAPI and BFGminer 3.6.0.

after allot of testing it is working when i start it.

I run:

sudo ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u user -p pass -G -S NFY:0 -s 60

I get:

Code:

 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to eu-stratum-lb489kj.btcguild.com diff 2 with stratum as user digi128pci_avalon
 Block: ...7ee030e7 #269461  Diff:511M ( 3.66Ph/s)  Started: [22:51:21]
 ST:2  F:0  NB:1  AS:0  BW:[163/ 31 B/s]  E:0.87  I:14.61uBTC/hr  BS:4
 0            | 202.4/263.0/178.1Mh/s | A:1 R:0+3( 75%) HW:8/ 33%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 NFY 0:       | OFF  /272.7/184.7Mh/s | A:1 R:0+3( 75%) HW:8/ 33%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2013-11-13 22:51:23] NFY 0: Previous nonce mismatch (4th try), recalibrating
 [2013-11-13 22:51:25] Accepted 3fa4ee98 NFY 0  Diff 4/2
 [2013-11-13 22:51:25] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-13 22:51:25] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
 [2013-11-13 22:51:25] Reconnect requested from pool 0 to eu-stratum-lb489kj.btcguild.com:3333
 [2013-11-13 22:51:26] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-13 22:51:32] mcp2210_spi_transfer: Failed to issue SPI transfer
 [2013-11-13 22:51:34] mcp2210_spi_transfer: Failed to continue SPI transfer (59 bytes remaining)
 [2013-11-13 22:51:34] NFY 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize
 [2013-11-13 22:51:34] mcp2210_set_cfg_spi: Error setting current SPI config (248)
 [2013-11-13 22:51:34] mcp2210_set_cfg_spi: Error setting current SPI config (248)
 [2013-11-13 22:51:34] NFY 0 failure, disabling!
 [2013-11-13 22:51:35] NFY 0: bitfury_init_oldbuf: Giving up after 4 tries
 [2013-11-13 22:51:35] NFY 0: bitfury_init_oldbuf: Giving up after 4 tries
 [2013-11-13 22:51:36] NFY 0: bitfury_init_oldbuf: Giving up after 4 tries
 [2013-11-13 22:51:37] NFY 0: bitfury_init_oldbuf: Giving up after 4 tries

pi@raspberrypi2 ~/bfgminer $ sudo ./bfgminer -D -T -S NFY:all
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] setrlimit: Soft fd limit not being changed from 1024 (FD_SETSIZE=1024; hard limit=4096)
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] Started bfgminer 3.6.0
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] hidapi_try_lib: Couldn't load libhidapi.so: libhidapi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] hidapi_try_lib: Couldn't load libhidapi-0.so: libhidapi-0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] hidapi_try_lib: Successfully loaded libhidapi-hidraw.so
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] hid_devinfo_scan: Found "NanoFury NF1 v0.6" serial "0000073623"
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found usb device at usb:001:006 (path=(null), vid=04d8, pid=00de, manuf=Microchip Technology Inc., prod=NanoFury NF1 v0.6, serial=0000073623)
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found usb device at usb:001:005 (path=(null), vid=0bda, pid=8176, manuf=Realtek, prod=802.11n WLAN Adapter, serial=00e04c000001)          
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found usb device at usb:001:004 (path=(null), vid=0409, pid=0058, manuf=NEC Corporation, prod=USB2.0 Hub Controller, serial=(null))      
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found usb device at usb:001:003 (path=(null), vid=0424, pid=ec00, manuf=(null), prod=(null), serial=(null))
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found usb device at usb:001:001 (path=(null), vid=1d6b, pid=0002, manuf=Linux 3.6.11+ dwc_otg_hcd, prod=DWC OTG Controller, serial=bcm2708_usb)
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found usb device at usb:001:002 (path=(null), vid=0424, pid=9512, manuf=(null), prod=(null), serial=(null))
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found hid device at hid:/dev/hidraw0 (path=/dev/hidraw0, vid=04d8, pid=00de, manuf=Microchip Technology Inc., prod=NanoFury NF1 v0.6, serial=0000073623)
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] lowlevel_scan: Found mcp2210 device at hid:/dev/hidraw0 (path=/dev/hidraw0, vid=04d8, pid=00de, manuf=Microchip Technology Inc., prod=NanoFury NF1 v0.6, serial=0000073623)
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] NFY 0 : Set temperature config: target=89 cutoff=95
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] Need to specify at least one pool server.
 [2013-11-13 22:56:46] Timers: Using clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW)
Pool setup failed

On windows i run BFGminer with:

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u user-p pass -G -S all --set-device NFY:osc6_bits=52

so i guess it has something todo with the bit setting ...

Anyone got any idea?

[Zich]

On windows i run BFGminer with:

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u digi128pci_avalon -p nanofury1 -G -S all --set-device NFY:osc6_bits=52

so i guess it has something todo with the bit setting ...

Anyone got any idea?

Nothing to do with bit, i run on win 7 just double click bfgminer.exe.

[Digi128pci]

On windows i run BFGminer with:

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u digi128pci_avalon -p nanofury1 -G -S all --set-device NFY:osc6_bits=52

so i guess it has something todo with the bit setting ...

Anyone got any idea?

Nothing to do with bit, i run on win 7 just double click bfgminer.exe.

On win 7 it works, i just try to get it working in ras pi

[Luke-Jr]

Mr. Luke-jr, I have a (possibly very ignorant) question for you.

BFGMiner obviously understands GBT.  Bitcoind/bitcoin-qt also understands GBT.

This being the case, why is it necessary to have pool software that understands GBT between my miner and my bitcoind if I want to solo mine using GBT ?  Why can't that functionality be built into the miner?

It is, hence the solo mining section of README.

[xyzzy099]

Mr. Luke-jr, I have a (possibly very ignorant) question for you.

BFGMiner obviously understands GBT.  Bitcoind/bitcoin-qt also understands GBT.

This being the case, why is it necessary to have pool software that understands GBT between my miner and my bitcoind if I want to solo mine using GBT ?  Why can't that functionality be built into the miner?

It is, hence the solo mining section of README.

Well, that's a welcome answer   Sorry to waste your time.

[RicRock]

Hi,

I try to get TECHNOBIT NANO FURRY working on ras pi:


so i guess it has something todo with the bit setting ...

Anyone got any idea?

I've been unable to get my Fury's running on my Pi.

VS3 suggested dropping the bits WAY down and working your way back up if successful

Which is a good idea