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

[chek2fire]

i will get an anker one of these days i have order it from amazon and i am waiting it. But if there is problem general with usb hubs in linux and with bfgminer i think will be a problem and with anker.
The strange is that bfgminer have problem only in linux and not in windows i dont know why. I forgot to mention that my linux distro is ubuntu 13.10,
I want to get it work because i like to make a rig with my atom laptop that runs lubuntu 13.10. Also there i have the same problem with bfgminer and hub

[HellDiverUK]

The Anker hubs are as picky as any other.  Mine doesn't work with one of the three PCs here - doesn't work at all on the AMD machine, and just about works on the NUC.  Works OK on the main PC.

[Mudbankkeith]

The Anker hubs are as picky as any other.  Mine doesn't work with one of the three PCs here - doesn't work at all on the AMD machine, and just about works on the NUC.  Works OK on the main PC.

yes. the spec on the hub is only part of the story, also the supplied power supply can be suspect.(even new ones)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253749.msg2700634#msg2700634

there are lots of hub comments on this thread

[jedimstr]

The Anker hubs are as picky as any other.  Mine doesn't work with one of the three PCs here - doesn't work at all on the AMD machine, and just about works on the NUC.  Works OK on the main PC.

yes. the spec on the hub is only part of the story, also the supplied power supply can be suspect.(even new ones)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253749.msg2700634#msg2700634

there are lots of hub comments on this thread

Yup, whenever I can I replace my Anker/Orinoco/AITech 10x USB3 hubs' power supplies with this one:
Sabrent AD-LCD12 LCD Monitors 12V 6A 72W AC Adapter Power Supply


You can get them from Amazon.com here: http://goo.gl/9GCPw7
They go for under $10 usually and well worth the cost.  The Anker's become much less tempermental when using these power supplies.

To bring this back to the topic of the thread....
This allows me to run Block Erupter, Red Fury, and Bi*Fury USB's plus a USB Fan on the same instance of BFGMiner without issues.

[deagel]

Hi,
you wrote:

Latest release: 3.9.0 (announcement & changes)
Arch: pacman -S bfgminer

If i try to install it the version but i get only:

Code:

[minepeon@xyz ~]$  sudo pacman -S bfgminer
warning: bfgminer-3.8.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (1): bfgminer-3.8.1-1

Total Installed Size:   1.42 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

Code:

[minepeon@xyz ~]$ uname -a
Linux xyz 3.10.25-1-ARCH #1 PREEMPT Mon Dec 23 16:07:25 MST 2013 armv6l GNU/Linux

can any body help me to get the actual version?

thanks for your help

deagel

[Taugeran]

Hi,
you wrote:

Latest release: 3.9.0 (announcement & changes)
Arch: pacman -S bfgminer

If i try to install it the version but i get only:

Code:

[minepeon@xyz ~]$  sudo pacman -S bfgminer
warning: bfgminer-3.8.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (1): bfgminer-3.8.1-1

Total Installed Size:   1.42 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

Code:

[minepeon@xyz ~]$ uname -a
Linux xyz 3.10.25-1-ARCH #1 PREEMPT Mon Dec 23 16:07:25 MST 2013 armv6l GNU/Linux

can any body help me to get the actual version?

thanks for your help

deagel

You will need to compile from source to get the most recent version

[deagel]

You will need to compile from source to get the most recent version

Hi,
that i know but in the release info is written that i can direct install the latest version with pacman.

[Luke-Jr]

You will need to compile from source to get the most recent version

Hi,
that i know but in the release info is written that i can direct install the latest version with pacman.

Some distros take a while to update when new versions are released.
I don't maintain those.

[Mudbankkeith]

Hi Luke-Jr

Do you have any information yet, regarding the AntMiner u1  from BitMain?

They will be starting to ship in bulk, in the next few days.

[Luke-Jr]

Hi Luke-Jr

Do you have any information yet, regarding the AntMiner u1  from BitMain?

They will be starting to ship in bulk, in the next few days.

I have a sample unit and some cgminer-specific code.
I believe I have some documentation too, but not sure if it applies to these units or is up to date.
There is a bitmain-asic.ko in the bundled OpenWrt firmware, which I do not see code for.

Lately, I have been moving to my new house. Not 100% done yet, but I need to be able to claim it as my primary residence before 2014, so that is my top priority for now.
That being said, I plan to spend time looking more into writing a BFGMiner driver for AntMiner in the next 48 hours.
If I need to reverse engineer the protocol from cgminer code, it will probably take longer than that to have it working.
If anyone wants to help me get this going faster, a PM with the most recent specs (if they exist) and/or bitmain-asic.ko source would be helpful.

[Mudbankkeith]

Hi Luke-Jr

Do you have any information yet, regarding the AntMiner u1  from BitMain?

They will be starting to ship in bulk, in the next few days.

I have a sample unit and some cgminer-specific code.
I believe I have some documentation too, but not sure if it applies to these units or is up to date.
There is a bitmain-asic.ko in the bundled OpenWrt firmware, which I do not see code for.

Lately, I have been moving to my new house. Not 100% done yet, but I need to be able to claim it as my primary residence before 2014, so that is my top priority for now.
That being said, I plan to spend time looking more into writing a BFGMiner driver for AntMiner in the next 48 hours.
If I need to reverse engineer the protocol from cgminer code, it will probably take longer than that to have it working.
If anyone wants to help me get this going faster, a PM with the most recent specs (if they exist) and/or bitmain-asic.ko source would be helpful.

Thanks for the heads up.
House moving and new year, at the same time as writing code?
I think you deserve some time off.   

[arklan]

Best of luck in the move. Always a mess, that.

[stan258]

I have been using Cgminer for almost a year now.  However if bfgminer is compatable with antminer u1 and technobit hex boards I will convert now.  I have pre order for both of those and its become a pain to get everything running on diffrent hosts. 

[shofty]

can anyone help me with my install of bfgminer on ubuntu? i can do it through apt-get but that only gets me 3.8.0 and i need 3.9.0 to use the new code fixes for bit fury.

so i have done the following...

Code:

cd ~
mkdir bin
cd bin
sudo git clone https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer ~/bin/bfgminer
cd bfgminer

sudo ./autogen.sh

which runs but comes up with the following error

Code:

./autogen.sh: 20: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found

which i take to mean its looking for an autoconf file, which isn't there. does it need to be?

the next step is (from reading the help on github)

Code:

sudo ./configure.ac --enable-bitfury

but this step also fails, 'command not found'.

anyone else going through this and know what the fix is?
and i know the obvious answer is to use the repos, but they aren't updated.

thanks,

[shofty]

ok , fixed my own issue by surprise, googling the error message.

needed to install autoconf uthash-dev and lib tool packages.

then used

Code:

./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-bitfury
make

bfgminer is streaming output rather than holding it in a block of text, but i think this might be bacuase i've ssh'd onto the ubuntu box. not sure why it won't show the desktop after login, need to fix that next.

however this is worrying, is it not?

Code:

BIF0 39.4C | 5s: 0.00 avg: 0.00 u:361.7 Mh/s | A:32 R:3+0(8.6%) HW:352/ 91%

looks to me like a busted chip...
anyone agree or disagree?

[HellDiverUK]

bfgminer is streaming output rather than holding it in a block of text, but i think this might be bacuase i've ssh'd onto the ubuntu box.

SSH has nothing to do with that.  I ssh in to multiple different machines and never seen this (Ubuntu, OpenWRT, Arch).

[Luke-Jr]

bfgminer is streaming output rather than holding it in a block of text, but i think this might be bacuase i've ssh'd onto the ubuntu box.

Compiled without curses support.

[shofty]

id noticed that in the output, but it was working fine until 3.9.0

that said, this box has now had so many installs and uninstalls of the bfg and cg miners any one of them could have removed it.

whats the actual package name? edit: libncurses5-dev

[lajz99]

What's the word on adding Drillbit device support?

[philipma1957]

Announcing BFGMiner 3.9, the modular ASIC/FPGA miner written in C. BFGMiner features dynamic clocking, monitoring, and remote interface capabilities.

"St. Barbara's Faithfully Glorified Mining Initiative Naturally Exceeding Rivals", or just basically a freaking good miner.

This code is provided entirely free of charge by the programmer, so donations would be greatly appreciated.
Please consider donating: 1QATWksNFGeUJCWBrN4g6hGM178Lovm7Wh
If you are donating for a specific bugfix/feature request, please post the Issue number and it will be flagged as "funded".

>>>…

Features:

• A variety of device drivers for Bitcoin (SHA256d):
  • Avalon ASIC mining rigs
  • Bi•Fury
  • Big Picture Mining Bitfury-based USB miners (BF1, RedFury, BlueFury)
  • BitCentury LittleFury USB miners
  • Bitfountain Block Erupter blades and USB miners (Emerald and Sapphire)
  • Butterfly Labs's BitForce SC (ASIC) product line
  • Butterfly Labs's FPGA BitForce Singles and MiniRigs
  • The Chili miner assembly
  • Cointamination
  • Enterpoint's Cairnsmore1 FPGA mining board
  • FPGA Mining X6500
  • HashBuster nano and micro boards
  • Intron/C-scape BitFury-based mining device (distributed through megabigpower.com and BFSB)
  • Klondike boards
  • KnCMiner mining devices
  • Metabank BitFury-based mining device
  • NanoFury NF1 USB stick
  • Qi Hardware's Icarus and Lancelot FPGA mining boards
  • BTCFPGA's ModMiner Quad FPGA-based mining device
  • Twinfury USB stick miner
  • Ztex's 1.15x and 1.15y FPGA boards
  • OpenCL GPUs, such as AMD Radeons
    • Kernels: Diablo, DiaKGCN, Phatk and poclbm
    • BFI_INT patching for Catalyst versions before 13.2
    • Vector support
    • Dynamic intensity that keeps desktop interactive under load and maximises throughput when desktop idle
    • Integrated overclocking and fan control (including automatic adjustment, if configured; AMD Catalyst drivers only)
    • ADL device reordering by PCI bus ID
    • Support for mining with free Mesa/LLVM OpenCL
    • GCN (79x0) support
  • CPU (not enabled by default nor included in Windows build)
  • Coming soon:
    • Bitmain AntMiner
    
          
    • Black Arrow Prospero mining machines
    • Butterfly Labs's Monarch bitcoin mining card
    • Cointerra TerraMiner ASIC miners
    • Drillbit devices
    • Eligius Mining Patty
    • Gamamax GamaStack boards
    • Hashfast Baby Jet
    • TechnoB⃦it HEX mining boards
    • any other device provided for development (PM me)
• Support for getblocktemplate decentralized mining protocol (no proxy needed!)
• ...
  
  

How soon for  antminer usb sticks?          [/list]