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

[crazyearner]

What drivers to I need to install to get my Avalon batch 2 working with BFG miner on PC Windows 7 or 8 please thx in advance. Connected device is showing as FT232R USB UART

[HellDiverUK]

What drivers to I need to install to get my Avalon batch 2 working with BFG miner on PC Windows 7 or 8 please thx in advance. Connected device is showing as FT232R USB UART

http://bit.ly/1hcgVHo

[crazyearner]

Ok as testing and sorting stuff out seems as nwoolls helped

-S avalon:\\.\COM37 --avalon-options 115200:24:10:45:355

Them settings do not work and just hands does nothing


works:
bfgminer -S avalon:\\.\COM37 --scan noauto --quota "100;stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9026" -u crazyearner.uno -p x


doesnt (and should):
bfgminer -S avalon:\\.\COM37 --scan noauto --quota "100;stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9026" -u crazyearner.uno -p x -S bigpic:\\.\COM34 -d bigpic@\\.\COM34 -S bigpic:\\.\COM35 -d bigpic@\\.\COM35 -S bigpic:\\.\COM36 -d bigpic@\\.\COM36

[nwoolls]

doesnt (and should):
bfgminer -S avalon:\\.\COM37 --scan noauto --quota "100;stratum+tcp://stratum.coinex.pw:9026" -u crazyearner.uno -p x -S bigpic:\\.\COM34 -d bigpic@\\.\COM34 -S bigpic:\\.\COM35 -d bigpic@\\.\COM35 -S bigpic:\\.\COM36 -d bigpic@\\.\COM36

When running this command bfgminer does launch but only hashes with the BF1 devices, showing the AVA as OFF.

[Taugeran]

Hello, I was testing my hw capabilities with bfgminer 3.8.1 compiled in Ubuntu 12.04, enabling cpu in the build, and when trying to use cpu the benchmark test at startup returns

Code:

[2013-12-15 17:49:25] "c"        : is fastest algorithm at 0.00000 MH/s

All of the cpu cores show up once the program is running, and again the hashing totals are zero.

Code:

 8            |  12.87/ 10.53/ 0.00Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

The pool command line parameters are working fine with other miners. Any idea where to look? Might it have anything to do with memory access?

Thank you.

its hashing just fine. its just not found a share yet. 12.87 megahash/sec will take in the neighborhood of 2-8 minutes to find a diff1 share

[Sicks3144]

Is there any detrimental effect to having bfg running as a proxy at a greater distance (in networking terms) than your LAN? I'm considering doing so - have my Linode run the proxy and then point my getwork-using miners at it.

Any downsides to this?

[VanBreuk]

Hello, I was testing my hw capabilities with bfgminer 3.8.1 compiled in Ubuntu 12.04, enabling cpu in the build, and when trying to use cpu the benchmark test at startup returns

Code:

[2013-12-15 17:49:25] "c"        : is fastest algorithm at 0.00000 MH/s

All of the cpu cores show up once the program is running, and again the hashing totals are zero.

Code:

 8            |  12.87/ 10.53/ 0.00Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none

The pool command line parameters are working fine with other miners. Any idea where to look? Might it have anything to do with memory access?

Thank you.

its hashing just fine. its just not found a share yet. 12.87 megahash/sec will take in the neighborhood of 2-8 minutes to find a diff1 share

Thanks for the answer. But actually I receive no shares after half an hour (getting them regularly with minerd) and even if bfgminer says I am connected, my worker does not appear active in the pool (while in minerd it does). The only special command line parameters I'm running in bfgminer are -S auto and --algo auto. Pool is using scrypt. Pool issue or bfgminer issue?

[crazyearner]

reporting another bug now cant run bfg miner at all

[Luke-Jr]

reporting another bug now cant run bfg miner at all

Need the stuff from the commandline...

Also be sure I didn't already fix it in git: http://luke.dashjr.org/tmp/code/webisect/webisect.php?dobuild=bfgminer

[mike_980]

Can anyone help me? i'm at my wits end

My nanofury works perfectly through the laptop USB port but when plugged into my usb hub (plugable 4 amp power supply) it runs for 5-10 minutes then just gives this over and over. Normally straight into the laptop I use this and it runs fine with a usb fan on it, i just get the odd frequency drop line popping up.

Code:

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=54

I have dropped it down to

Code:

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=50

Through my usb hub and still getting the problems what would cause this?

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[vs3]

Can anyone help me? i'm at my wits end

My nanofury works perfectly through the laptop USB port but when plugged into my usb hub (plugable 4 amp power supply) it runs for 5-10 minutes then just gives this over and over. Normally straight into the laptop I use this and it runs fine with a usb fan on it, i just get the odd frequency drop line popping up.

Code:

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=54

I have dropped it down to

Code:

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=50

Through my usb hub and still getting the problems what would cause this?

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Mike - try this: Press [M] to go to the device manager, select the device in question, press

• to change the oscillator bits, put some very low number - like 20 or 30 and hit enter. That should reinitialize the device. Give it a few seconds and see if those messages stop. You should see the device coming back up and hashing (at some low speed). Once that happens go back in and change the bits to the high number you used before.

What I suspect is happening is the miner overheats. Try a bit lower speed than 54 - like 53 or 52, or try pointing a fan to it.
If you have an infrared thermometer check the temperature - if you see it going over 85C you're exceeding the limits of the components.

[mike_980]

thankyou for the reply,

I have a fan cooling the chips and they get warm to touch but by no means hot. I think I may have solved this problem (touch wood) by decreasing to 53 and also the "pencil mod" which i read would help stabilise the frequency (I used to get alot of the frequency drop over 50% detected message). However since then - no issues!

However, as you can see for some reason when using

Code:

-S all

I get MMQ show up as dead - I dont know what MMQ is, I assume it is my CPU or GPU as I have OpenCL installed on both but don't use either for mining. Whenever I put

Code:

--disable-gpu

into the .bat file (after my password but before -S all) bfgminer just crashes immediately after it trys to open. By crashes, I mean the window pops up and immediately vanishes. I tried going in through the bfgminer menu (M -> + -> select device) but as soon as I set focus to the "MMQ0" in the list bfgminer closes every time. Does anyone know what MMQ could be or how I can stop it showing up?

edit: i spoke too soon i have my fist problem back though it didn't do it for a few hours that time so i will play more with the numbers

[JBT]

Can anyone help me? i'm at my wits end

My nanofury works perfectly through the laptop USB port but when plugged into my usb hub (plugable 4 amp power supply) it runs for 5-10 minutes then just gives this over and over. Normally straight into the laptop I use this and it runs fine with a usb fan on it, i just get the odd frequency drop line popping up.

Code:

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=54

I have dropped it down to

Code:

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=50

Through my usb hub and still getting the problems what would cause this?

keep in mind not all usb are equal. try running just it on there and see if it works. each port can pull 0.5A so 10ports the power supply should be 5A not 4

[mike_980]

All I am running through the hub is the nanofury, a block erupter and a mini usb fan so I can't see that being over 1.5A?

It's also strange that my nanofury is the only one that has a problem with it and my block erupter runs fine?

[mike_980]

for any prospective googler having similar problems, it looks like I am having some kind of driver issue. I noticed that if I go into the device manager to the USB section windows had stopped two of my drivers for some reason. I will report back if i get it running stable!

[bravew0lf]

I'm new to mining and had a few questions about setting up the mining devices in BFGMiner.
I've seen quite a few different ways to add devices and was wondering which was best to use with ASIC Block Erupters.
(All setups produced similar but different results.) *I have four Block Erupters running

These are the different ways that I am aware of and do work:

1) Hit M for Manage then the + key to add devices and type all and hit the Enter key> Hit S for Settings then W for write config file.
(This labels all miners as ICA (Icarus devices) and the results are give or take 30 uBTC/hr)

2)Follow same above instruction but after writing the config file, right click on the BFGMiner.exe icon, go to Properties and add this command "-o Pool URL -u Username -p Password --S all at the end of the target filename.
(This does the same thing as above but gives me higher results in the upward of 45 uBTC/hr - 35 uBTC/hr, occasionally spiking higher or lower, but never lower than 30 uBTC/hr give or take)

3)Follow above instructions, but add "--icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100" to the end of the same command at the end of the target filename.
(This also gives me similar results as 1) gave me, but can drop as low as 24 uBTC/hr at times and run that way steady for some time before rising again to not only repeat the fall at a random point in time)

4) Follow the same instructions as 1), but instead of typing all, type erupter:\\.\COM with the COM number associated with each miner until you have added them all, again hit the Enter key and follow the same instructions to write the config file.
(This labels all miners as BES (Block Erupter USB devices *?) and the results are between 25 uBTC/hr and 30 uBTC/hr)

*Note that cpu and gpu are not running along with these miners. I'm not sure why they are not since I did not specify for them not to be by adding the -G command in with the command added to the target filename, but I am fine with this. Still, an explanation may prove helpful understanding these setups more thoroughly.

This is a trial, but if proves to be worth it, I'll be purchasing more.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated, Thank you.






 

[lilfooker2469]

I'm using bfgminer to mine litecoin, but it keeps showing me the speed in mhs or ghs instead of khs , is ther any way to set it to show khs ,
im mining on give-me-coins and it does show that i am mine scypt.

[Luke-Jr]

I'm using bfgminer to mine litecoin, but it keeps showing me the speed in mhs or ghs instead of khs , is ther any way to set it to show khs ,
im mining on give-me-coins and it does show that i am mine scypt.

I don't care to investigate or fix this.
Patches welcome from anyone who does...
(there's also an opening for official BFGMiner scrypt lead maintainer)

[dE_logics]

I'm mining both on CPU and GPU. For CPU mining I'm using cpuminer and for GPU bfgminer (3.8.1).

The hash rate in bfgminer is ~200 KH/s and for cpuminer it's 22 KH/s.

bfgminer has failed to solve a single block while cpuminer has found 20 so far.

What can be wrong? Thanks!

Also I've tried changing the intensity, but it doesn't work.

[af_newbie]

Luke,

There might be a bug in the way bfgminer is handling BTC and PPC pools.

When I have few BTC pools configured and one backup PPC pool, bfgminer reports PPC diff, PPC network hashing power.
And then BTC pools cannot solve any work.  For example if I have the following pools in "failover" mode:

eligius
ghash
d7pool
btcguild

none of of BTC pools can start hashing, I don't see any work done.  But when I switch to d7, bfgminer reports accepted shares right away.

When I remove PPC pool from the configuration and restart, BTC pools solve shares and I see shares are being accepted.

I think it might be something related with diff (target).

I'm not sure you want to fix this, or if you want to support this.  I suspect it is not just PPC issue, all alts pools will have the same issue.