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April 20, 2013, 03:11:35 AM |
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I do admit it is fun hooking up hardware, tweaking settings, cooling your rigs, etc. I don't mean to offend you or anything... I am a nerd in that sense, but I also like to make money too. I just don't want anyone buying them thinking they're gonna get rich. Yes, ideally we nerds could have fun while also making money! The MMQ was in my price range at the time, though I admit this 2 weeks of frustration trying to get the replacements for the broken ones, and trying to get it to actually work have been incredibly discouraging! Another awesomely helpful member of the forums SSH'ed in and was unable to get it to work as well; he has 10+ years of Linux experience and runs a cairnsmore1, and was about as frustrated as I am! The conclusion is that it might well be something with the hardware, since the mining software (both bfgminer and cgminer) detect the miner plugged into the USB, but couldn't detect the actual FPGAs themselves. When Tom tried on Wednesday night, he abruptly told me to reinstall fresh and that he was going to bed. So, he had no luck either. I've been trying to get back in touch to have him try again since I did a fresh install, but haven't had any success getting ahold of him. We'll see ... but at this point, BFL ASICs might beat me to mining!
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DPoS
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April 20, 2013, 03:45:34 AM |
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sucks about your luck.. i have an old windows box I am going to put mine in and try if that is quicker.. i am going to use that box for a couple of other things too so i dont care much about ultra low power, etc
i like that i am stashing some btc into this miner and will see them later on.. kinda a long buy and hold strategy but you get to play with a miner the whole time and it becomes free!
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JonSnow
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April 20, 2013, 03:56:17 AM |
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sucks about your luck.. i have an old windows box I am going to put mine in and try if that is quicker.. i am going to use that box for a couple of other things too so i dont care much about ultra low power, etc
i like that i am stashing some btc into this miner and will see them later on.. kinda a long buy and hold strategy but you get to play with a miner the whole time and it becomes free!
i'll be very interested to hear how your setup goes! i would offer to help with any questions you had, but seeing as how i haven't figured my setup out yet, that's probably not too comforting.
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Bitweasil
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April 20, 2013, 05:06:13 AM |
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I have two up and running with little to no trouble.
I'm running the bfgminer out of the current repo. I did have to add myself to the USB group per directions, but otherwise, they're working great.
I'd be willing to provide dumps from my debug output or such if it would help. I did manually set the clocks to something a bit more sane (I was pushing to hardware errors more than I cared to do).
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JonSnow
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April 20, 2013, 05:10:03 AM |
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I have two up and running with little to no trouble.
I'm running the bfgminer out of the current repo. I did have to add myself to the USB group per directions, but otherwise, they're working great.
I'd be willing to provide dumps from my debug output or such if it would help. I did manually set the clocks to something a bit more sane (I was pushing to hardware errors more than I cared to do).
That could help, if you don't mind posting it!
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April 20, 2013, 05:21:54 AM |
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[2013-04-20 00:19:55] Started bfgminer 3.0.0 [2013-04-20 00:19:55] DISPLAY not set, setting :0 just in case [2013-04-20 00:19:55] Failed to load OpenCL library, no GPUs usable [2013-04-20 00:19:58] ModMiner identified as: ModMiner Quad v0.4-ljr-alpha [2013-04-20 00:19:58] ModMiner ModMiner Quad v0.4-ljr-alpha has 4 FPGAs [2013-04-20 00:20:01] ModMiner identified as: ModMiner Quad v0.4-ljr-alpha [2013-04-20 00:20:01] ModMiner ModMiner Quad v0.4-ljr-alpha has 4 FPGAs [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 0a: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 0b: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 0c: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 0d: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 1a: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 1b: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 1c: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] MMQ 1d: Set temperature config: target=79 cutoff=85 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Probing for an alive pool [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Popping work to stage thread [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Testing pool http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] HTTP request failed: Empty reply from server [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Failed to connect in json_rpc_call [2013-04-20 00:20:01] HTTP request failed: Empty reply from server [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Failed to connect in json_rpc_call [2013-04-20 00:20:01] initiate_stratum with sockbuf=(nil) [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Failed to get sessionid in initiate_stratum [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Pool 0 stratum bdifficulty set to 1.000000 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Received stratum notify from pool 0 with job_id=47043 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0 [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 active [2013-04-20 00:20:01] Pool 0 stratum bdifficulty set to 2.000000 And relevant lsusb -v output: Bus 005 Device 003: ID 1fc9:0003 Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 2 Communications bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x1fc9 idProduct 0x0003 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 BTCFPGA iProduct 2 ModMiner LJRalpha iSerial 3 0909F716535804B84FA21FCEF5000004 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 67 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 2 Communications bInterfaceSubClass 2 Abstract (modem) bInterfaceProtocol 1 AT-commands (v.25ter) iInterface 0 CDC Header: bcdCDC 1.10 CDC Call Management: bmCapabilities 0x03 call management use DataInterface bDataInterface 1 CDC ACM: bmCapabilities 0x02 line coding and serial state CDC Union: bMasterInterface 0 bSlaveInterface 1 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0010 1x 16 bytes bInterval 2 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 10 CDC Data bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x03 EP 3 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered)
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Bitweasil
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April 20, 2013, 05:23:17 AM |
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Also, is the center LED blinking?
Have you seated the FPGA cards properly (they take a bit of a shove to lock in)?
Do you have the boards sitting on something non-conductive?
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April 20, 2013, 07:49:32 PM |
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Also, is the center LED blinking? It depends - sometimes it is blinking, other times it is off completely, and other times still it is lit up solid without blinking. Even when it is blinking (as it's supposed to when it's ready to mine or mining) it still can't mine. Have you seated the FPGA cards properly (they take a bit of a shove to lock in)? Yes, and I've redone the assembly several times to be sure that there's nothing I'm missing. Do you have the boards sitting on something non-conductive?
Yes, a wooden surface. And still no word from Tom.
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DPoS
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April 21, 2013, 07:05:46 AM |
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Mine looks healthy and great in my case but WinXp is not installing it. It keeps asking for a driver. The Wiki said that 32bit windows would just install from windows update but that ain't happening
Does anyone know what driver I am suppose to give it?
It does know its name "ModMiner LJRalpha" listed under Other Devices with the big Question Mark
I dont think I need to do any firmware updates.
Until it installs, it won't get a com port so no point in trying to mine with it for now
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April 21, 2013, 08:04:12 AM |
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Does it specify anything more than "driver" ?? I mean is there any other information given in the error?
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April 21, 2013, 08:36:07 AM |
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Does it specify anything more than "driver" ?? I mean is there any other information given in the error?
It notices it as new hardware, states its name 'ModMiner LJRalpha' and tries to install driver for it but can't find any. So it sits as a yellow question mark in the Device Manager The modminer wiki said that win 32bit would just install with no issue. but what is it suppose to install? i did the usual uninstall the USB ports, let the system re-install those, but no change when it comes to the modminer. Wish whatever it needs was posted I'll have to ping Tom.
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April 21, 2013, 08:38:34 AM |
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i haven't been able to get in touch with him since Wednesday and still haven't received my final replacement card.
hope you have better luck than i have!
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April 21, 2013, 08:40:41 AM |
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April 21, 2013, 02:36:45 PM |
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thanks for diggin this up.. i still need to get some time for this since here is the instructions for using that https://github.com/pbatard/libwdi/wiki/Installit looks like this allows you to create a driver assigned to whatever device to make windows happy I am surprised no one posted a finished compiled file somewhere but i will once i get time but that is empty until later this week sadly hopefully by the time i can work on this again you will have your replacement and be up and running!!
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Bitweasil
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April 21, 2013, 02:51:52 PM |
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Is there a reason you're not just using Linux in a virtual machine?
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April 21, 2013, 09:35:11 PM |
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Is there a reason you're not just using Linux in a virtual machine?
that's one of the many plan B's The rig is my old PC running a P4 with plenty of space in the case to put the Mod Miner in it. It had XP so that was the quick idea. Not sure why there was lots of talk that it would 'just install no issues' with 32 bit XP when it looks like no one has every done that I may take a stab at creating the USB driver for it but just dont have much time right now (leaving for the 3D printer convention in NY)
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April 22, 2013, 10:48:30 PM |
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Well, it has been over a week since Tom said he sent my 2nd replacement card and I still haven't received it or had any luck getting the miner to actually mine. Tom also hasn't responded since Wednesday. This is getting frustrating.
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April 22, 2013, 10:57:17 PM |
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I spoke to Tom earlier after a couple of attempts got hold of him.
Try calling him, the number is on the modminerquad.com page.
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April 23, 2013, 01:22:44 AM |
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I just bought a ModMiner QUAD from www.btcfpga.com and was wondering what flavor of linux will be best suited for running this miner? Any help is appreciated! -battmann And now that website is down. www.btcfpga.com
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April 23, 2013, 03:49:18 AM |
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I just bought a ModMiner QUAD from www.btcfpga.com and was wondering what flavor of linux will be best suited for running this miner? Any help is appreciated! -battmann And now that website is down. www.btcfpga.comYeah, he moved it to here: modminerquadstore.com
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