[Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service

[Tursk]

So, am I understanding this right?

The assembler factory isn't handing out any Bitburners back to burnin before the whole SebastianJu's batch is done?
There are hundreds of boards ready, but they are still just waiting in the assembler's warehouse?

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[Roy Badami]

i dont think losing the shipping contractor was the best move.

Not everyone can afford to lose EUR 20,000 and still continue to spend money.  Sound like burnin is doing what is necessary to stay in business.

roy

[SebastianJu]

i dont think losing the shipping contractor was the best move.

Not everyone can afford to lose EUR 20,000 and still continue to spend money.  Sound like burnin is doing what is necessary to stay in business.

roy

I dont know what such shipment provider would cost but when i imagine burnin packaging hundreds! of boards alone and manually... he has to buy all the packaging, bubblefoil, packets and so on. He has to bring it to post station and buy the shipping labels too. I doubt a bit that the shipment provider would be so pricey when the actual price for the postage and package material is taken out. But i imagine on the other hand that this will mean an immense work to do which most probably cant be done fast.
I only think that the shipment provider can work cheaper than burnin putting his time into this.
I might be wrong at this point of course since i dont have a clue what such shipping contractor takes..

[julz]

It is infuriating to pay over 400 Euros for 'express' shipping and not even get any order status feedback.
It's also a sting to hear that there have been a few days lost due to involvement in what amounts to a later project - the bitfury one - when I've fulfilled my parts of the deal by shipping him chips and paying in full immediately for board assembly and shipping.

So, what are the current options - Can I get a mate in Germany to drive over and pick them up?  Are the zefir batch 2 boards definitely assembled and just waiting?

Even on pickup, I would consider the 400+ Euros as owing to me - but I would be happy to take the risk of deferring the debt until such time as burnin is (hopefully) in profit - given the difficult circumstances that are mostly not of his creating.

[SebastianJu]

Today i got a packet from burnin for 5 bitburner that i host for a member for a couple weeks until he moved. So i can tell you that he is shipping. The miner were packaged even better than my first delivery. It will be hard to crash them on shipping.

@burnin... i saw you use online labelling... i normally do this so too but last time the postwoman asked me if i wouldnt pay the shipping at the post station because they have to solve a certain amount of sold value to keep the number of employments. With too less value they lose employments. So i think for the future i will only print out the full labels and pay there. The line in post office is way too long all the time anyway... Only for consideration since you have to bring the packets there anyway.

[madmax_ger]

Today i got a packet from burnin for 5 bitburner that i host for a member for a couple weeks until he moved. So i can tell you that he is shipping. The miner were packaged even better than my first delivery. It will be hard to crash them on shipping.

@burnin... i saw you use online labelling... i normally do this so too but last time the postwoman asked me if i wouldnt pay the shipping at the post station because they have to solve a certain amount of sold value to keep the number of employments. With too less value they lose employments. So i think for the future i will only print out the full labels and pay there. The line in post office is way too long all the time anyway... Only for consideration since you have to bring the packets there anyway.

What batch / order# it was?

I can tell you that most of the bigger DP / DHL departments and also some smaller ones have a business center/counter, too. In most cases it's in the backroom, reachable via a backdoor   The DHL trucks are loaded/unloaded there too. Even there are many packages sent from dortmund all the time I never had to wait more than 2 minutes there.

[Newar]

What batch / order# it was?

There have been shipping confirmations for zefir batch 2. Just few pages back.

[SebastianJu]

What were the steps for compiling cgminer on rpi again? I searched everywhere, even in kano's latest posts but his post where he explained it to me seems to not exist anymore unfortunately.

It was something like

git clone https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer.git
cd cgminer
./autogen.sh --enable-avalon

But at this step it gets already error message that it misses something in autogen. Autoconf missing and so on. So i dont reach the make-command.

[-Redacted-]

This should have all the steps you need.  Change it to pull from ckolivas's git and add your avalon options in place of the bitfury enable.

For your convenience, here's the instructions to compile the bitfury cgminer fork yourself on raspibian if you want to use your own SD card:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf
#  (comment out the blacklist lines if there are any / add a "#" in front of the blacklist lines)
#  (save and quit by doing ctrl+x, y, enter)
sudo shutdown -r now
#  (restart to enable SPI and make sure it autostarts, you should see spidev0.0 and spidev0.1 in "ls /dev/spi*")
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev autoconf pkg-config libtool libudev-dev libusb-dev git
git clone https://github.com/legkodymov/cgminer.git
cd cgminer
./autogen.sh
#  (hit ctrl+c when it starts doing configure / "checking for...")
./configure --help
#  (you can see the configure option flags)
./configure --enable-bitfury
#  (or use other configurations as necessary)
make
sudo make install
#  (obviously, don't make install if you're using multiple copies of cgminer, just run the ./cgminer)

If you include --syslog along with your other flags when running cgminer, you should see the bitfury chips (or other devices) detect in sequence on /var/log/syslog

[Pontius]

[...]
cd cgminer
./autogen.sh
#  (hit ctrl+c when it starts doing configure / "checking for...")
[...]

No need for CTRL-C; you can pass the options directly to autogen.sh

Code:

./autogen.sh --enable-avalon --enable-bitfury

[Newar]

Paraphrase from the README:

Basic *nix build instructions:
   To actually build:

   ./autogen.sh
   CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure --enable-avalon

To me it sounds like you are missing some of the prerequisites.  The lines starting with "sudo apt-get" in -Redacted-s' post should take care of that.

[SebastianJu]

It seems to work now. apt-get was missed before i think. It looks now like it will work...

[mastahofdesastah]

Hi Guys

If you still wanna buy some Bitburners, here my auction:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304778.new#new

The Chips are already arrived to Burnin.

They are from Batch #1 Burnin order #33x

Greets
Mastahofdesastah

[stergium]

@burnin or @SebastianJu .
Was a tracking number supplied for this delivery ?  so people would wait for something like that in their inbox?

[coinbird]

How long does it take burnin to move a sold order to another account? Waiting 4 days now...

... 8 days & still no reply

[freifallspoiler]

How long does it take burnin to move a sold order to another account? Waiting 4 days now...

... 8 days & still no reply

Also no replies to my emails as well. Seems not to be the time for communications... 

[baloo_kiev]

Please post your odrer status.
This is my:

Code:

Order No.       Chips from         Chips delivered      Tracking received       Delivered
#48x            SebastianJu            18.09.20                -                    -

[pazor]

Order     Date                    Status    
#665        July 24, 2013            Processing

any news about the progress of the manufactoring ?
order paid and i wait for the delivery

[vanycon]

I am also interested in the status of my order every day is a loss in BTC - I think you do everything you can but please leave a short information here.

[Grinny]

Sorry, if those question were already answered, but i stopped following this thread at page 140 or so..

Is there any concrete ETA / news regarding the Bitburner refunds, beside 'mid of October'?
Has burnin already stated if he's willing to refund more than 50%?