USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer & Hubs "Oh Pi"!

[os2sam]

Not so solved,

when starting cgminer 5 or 6 are recognized almost immediately, the rest come in a few seconds later but the last few more often than not are not listed 

anyone else have this problem ?

I've found I have to run the zadig driver installer each time I start mining in Win7, like so:
    1 - plug in erupters
    2 - run zadig installer
    3 - disconnect & reconnect erupters
    4 - start cgminer

That is just bizarre.  I ran Zadig once and have not had to do it since.

Per the ASIC readme
1. Unplug all Erupters
2. Run Zadig - Install WinUSB (I may have rebooted, can't remember for sure) - You cannot install WinUSB while Erupters are plugged in.
3. Plug in one Erupter, verify that it is set to WinUSB.
4. Close Zadig, plug in the rest of the Erupters, run CGMiner.
Done

Win7 32bit.

I have not had to rerun Zadig since.  And I have added Erupters since my initial install.  Running 10 now.
Sam

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[LaserHorse]

I have not had to rerun Zadig since.  And I have added Erupters since my initial install.  Running 10 now.
Sam

well, to be clear, I only use Win7 as a backup when I'm testing scripts on the RPi.
have yet to thoroughly investigate a fix for the situation

[southerngentuk]

I only had to run it once as well.   

[n4ru]

Where could I get a fan for just a few USB Erupters? I'm expecting to be running 3 and likely won't be using a seperate hub for them initially.

[poohbah]

This hub seems to work with 4 or 5 erupters. The power supply is 2A but I can't find any specs on max total power draw. I have one with 4 erupters and a USB fan, and a second with 5 erupters. It's only been running for about 20 minutes, so there is still time for something to blow up.

Rosewill RHB-330 7 Ports USB 2.0 Hub (really a 5 port powered hub with 2 unpowered ports)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182212
Currently on sale with rebate for $14AR (through 7/18/13).

I'm running cgminer 3.3.1 with the following conf file. If anybody needs the conf file settings, these work. I had a difficult time finding a conf file since most people seem to prefer the command line. I prefer the conf files because of how easy it is to configure backup pools. Note that there are no icarus settings in this conf - this is a VERY basic conf file. The icarus settings are apparently not needed with the new(er) cgminer versions.

Code:

{
"pools" : [
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333",
		"user" : "username",
		"pass" : "pass"
	},
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://mmpool.bitparking.com:3333",
		"user" : "username",
		"pass" : "pass"
	},
	{
		"url" : "http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333",
		"user" : "username",
		"pass" : "pass"
	},
	{
		"url" : "http://us1.eclipsemc.com:8337",
		"user" : "username",
		"pass" : "pass"
	}
],

"api-listen" : true,
"api-network" : true, 
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",

"failover-only" : true,
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "2",
"scan-time" : "60",
"worktime" : true,
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"

}

[redcomet]

Hi guys, I just noticed the items I bought last month are a lot cheaper. 

Arctic Breeze Fan was $17.98 - now $8.99!
Edimax wireless was $21.94 - now $10.97!

Guess all our buying lowered prices 

[420]

Hi guys, I just noticed the items I bought last month are a lot cheaper. 

Arctic Breeze Fan was $17.98 - now $8.99!
Edimax wireless was $21.94 - now $10.97!

Guess all our buying lowered prices 

is the fan needed for the asicminers?

[redcomet]

is the fan needed for the asicminers?

Not at all, but it's nice to have.  I think the heatsinks do a lot more to cool the chips down

[southerngentuk]

is the fan needed for the asicminers?

Not at all, but it's nice to have.  I think the heatsinks do a lot more to cool the chips down

Mine were really hot, I put a desk fan on them (low speed) and now there cool as cucumbers. I think it really helped but is a bit of an overkill till my new fan arrives.

[-ck]

My 11 arrived this morning and all is good.
The only problem am having is displaying more than 9 in cgminer, i can tell there all there just not all in the first list.
Do i need to add something to the config file?

(windows 7)

EDIT : SOLVED a couple of restarts of cgminer done the trick

Not so solved,

when starting cgminer 5 or 6 are recognized almost immediately, the rest come in a few seconds later but the last few more often than not are not listed 

anyone else have this problem ?

Hotplugged ones on windows stopped enlarging the window in the last version of cgminer because the interface library "pdcurses" used on windows crashes randomly when we do this so it's safer to not try to show any hotplugged devices until we can find some meaningful workaround. Linux doesn't have this issue.

[southerngentuk]

My 11 arrived this morning and all is good.
The only problem am having is displaying more than 9 in cgminer, i can tell there all there just not all in the first list.
Do i need to add something to the config file?

(windows 7)

EDIT : SOLVED a couple of restarts of cgminer done the trick

Not so solved,

when starting cgminer 5 or 6 are recognized almost immediately, the rest come in a few seconds later but the last few more often than not are not listed 

anyone else have this problem ?

Hotplugged ones on windows stopped enlarging the window in the last version of cgminer because the interface library "pdcurses" used on windows crashes randomly when we do this so it's safer to not try to show any hotplugged devices until we can find some meaningful workaround. Linux doesn't have this issue.

thanks for the explanation, I can live with it as is, until I get my PI running....

[Trillium]

So I got my first erupters today and spent about 2 hours trying to take the advice in a bunch of threads about settings them up with cgminer. Silly me tried to set them up with the latest version of cgminer 3.3.1. Since the -S command was removed a few versions ago it seems like you are now supposed to get a perfect install of the drivers and then it magically detects the USB devices on start up. But this didn't work for me, and others in some threads had problems with this too.

So I followed this guide http://rdmsnippets.com/tag/install-block-erupter-on-windows-7/ to the letter and used the older 3.1.1 and it worked more or less perfectly.

Not sure how support for the USB miners will progress with new versions of cgminer. I suppose its best to just leave it alone since it works.

Also I used the D-Link DUB-H7 hub and it works flawlessly. Running of my netbook (~13 watts) which runs 24/7 anyway, seems like a good host.

[os2sam]

So I got my first erupters today and spent about 2 hours trying to take the advice in a bunch of threads about settings them up with cgminer. Silly me tried to set them up with the latest version of cgminer 3.3.1. Since the -S command was removed a few versions ago it seems like you are now supposed to get a perfect install of the drivers and then it magically detects the USB devices on start up. But this didn't work for me, and others in some threads had problems with this too.

So I followed this guide http://rdmsnippets.com/tag/install-block-erupter-on-windows-7/ to the letter and used the older 3.1.1 and it worked more or less perfectly.

Not sure how support for the USB miners will progress with new versions of cgminer. I suppose its best to just leave it alone since it works.

Also I used the D-Link DUB-H7 hub and it works flawlessly. Running of my netbook (~13 watts) which runs 24/7 anyway, seems like a good host.

Unless you have USB 3.0 hubs, you should have just followed the simple paragraph in the ASIC readme file and installed the WinUSB driver with Zadig and associate your USB Erupter with the WinUSB driver.

I did that and had my Erupters running in minutes and has been running flawlessly since with no command line arguments besides --usb ICA:3 since I'm running three instances of CGMiner with 3 Erupters per pool.

Much simpler than mapping all of those serial ports and putting each port/miner in the command line.
Sam

[Trillium]

So I got my first erupters today and spent about 2 hours trying to take the advice in a bunch of threads about settings them up with cgminer. Silly me tried to set them up with the latest version of cgminer 3.3.1. Since the -S command was removed a few versions ago it seems like you are now supposed to get a perfect install of the drivers and then it magically detects the USB devices on start up. But this didn't work for me, and others in some threads had problems with this too.

So I followed this guide http://rdmsnippets.com/tag/install-block-erupter-on-windows-7/ to the letter and used the older 3.1.1 and it worked more or less perfectly.

Not sure how support for the USB miners will progress with new versions of cgminer. I suppose its best to just leave it alone since it works.

Also I used the D-Link DUB-H7 hub and it works flawlessly. Running of my netbook (~13 watts) which runs 24/7 anyway, seems like a good host.

Unless you have USB 3.0 hubs, you should have just followed the simple paragraph in the ASIC readme file and installed the WinUSB driver with Zadig and associate your USB Erupter with the WinUSB driver.

I did that and had my Erupters running in minutes and has been running flawlessly since with no command line arguments besides --usb ICA:3 since I'm running three instances of CGMiner with 3 Erupters per pool.

Much simpler than mapping all of those serial ports and putting each port/miner in the command line.
Sam

ASIC-README.txt in version 3.1.1 only refers to BFL and Avalon devices. I had a look in it but figured it was not relevant at the time.

[os2sam]

So I got my first erupters today and spent about 2 hours trying to take the advice in a bunch of threads about settings them up with cgminer. Silly me tried to set them up with the latest version of cgminer 3.3.1. Since the -S command was removed a few versions ago it seems like you are now supposed to get a perfect install of the drivers and then it magically detects the USB devices on start up. But this didn't work for me, and others in some threads had problems with this too.

So I followed this guide http://rdmsnippets.com/tag/install-block-erupter-on-windows-7/ to the letter and used the older 3.1.1 and it worked more or less perfectly.

Not sure how support for the USB miners will progress with new versions of cgminer. I suppose its best to just leave it alone since it works.

Also I used the D-Link DUB-H7 hub and it works flawlessly. Running of my netbook (~13 watts) which runs 24/7 anyway, seems like a good host.

Unless you have USB 3.0 hubs, you should have just followed the simple paragraph in the ASIC readme file and installed the WinUSB driver with Zadig and associate your USB Erupter with the WinUSB driver.

I did that and had my Erupters running in minutes and has been running flawlessly since with no command line arguments besides --usb ICA:3 since I'm running three instances of CGMiner with 3 Erupters per pool.

Much simpler than mapping all of those serial ports and putting each port/miner in the command line.
Sam

ASIC-README.txt in version 3.1.1 only refers to BFL and Avalon devices. I had a look in it but figured it was not relevant at the time.

The ASIC Readme in 3.3.1, you know the version you had trouble with because you didn't read the ASIC Readme nor the regular readme.

Why read the ASIC Readme in the version you got working with the old command line arguments that you seem to be already familiar with?

[southerngentuk]

I done the same - read lots of conflicting instructions on the threads got confused scratch my head for an hour and then read the read me file - bam, all working in 5 mins

 

P.S I brought one of those cheap USB fans on ebay, as soon as its plugged in all my usb`s disconnect ( including HD ) Lmao. Its now plugged into a usb phone plug. Hoping it wont catch fire 

[phrog]

FYI the D-Link DUB-H7s have only been able to run 6 Erupters each for me.

[Beastlymac]

Hi could someone please measure the distance between the ports on the dlink 7 port hub. MM would be amazing. THANKS.

[Rotorgeek]

Hi could someone please measure the distance between the ports on the dlink 7 port hub. MM would be amazing. THANKS.

11mm from top to top, 6 from bottom to top.

[poohbah]

Why buy the Dlink when you can buy the rosewill "7" port for $15AR? I linked it above, and it seems to be running 5 erupters perfectly.

There's a 20% off code on it today too! Damn, that's pretty cheap.