USB Block Erupter on a Mac? Anybody got it working?

[zpply]

Anybody get these mining on a Mac yet?  How is it done?

i'm still waiting on my miners, but you can install an older version of cgminer via homebrew. instructions here:

http://blog.nwoolls.com/2013/04/24/bitcoin-mining-on-mac-os-x-cgminer-bfgminer/

not sure if upgrading to the latest version is possible, or if someone has to package a special brew release.

I'm still waiting for the erupters to arrive but cgminer works on my macbook pro. I just don't know what will happen when I connect a USB hub with erupters on it. Will it just recognize them and start working?

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yes, the newer versions of cgminer will auto detect them as long as you didn't install the usb serial drivers, and bfgminer will auto detect them only if you have installed the usb serial drivers

[zpply]

Wow. I've posted on a few different locations around here trying to get this going with no luck. I've got a mac mini with anker usb hubs 3.0 9 + 1. I can't get all the eruptors to all show up on the hub. I've tried different combinations, I've tried connecting the hubs first then plugin each erupt ors one by one - first hub fills up ok. second hub gets to 6 then won't recognize 7,8,9 and 3rd hub doesn't recognize anything.

I've tried having the eruptors already connected then plugin the hubs into the mac mini by usb and it randomly lights up a few eruptors on each hub - really weird.

Mac mini is new running 10.8.4

I've installed these drivers for the USB miners - http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx

Not sure what else to do? Only thing I can think of is installing Windows 7 via bootcamp and trying to see if windows will recognize all the hubs and eruptors.

Is it the mac mini is it os x - what the hell!

[elpenguin]

I am using Mac Mini with an Anker 3.0 10 port hub and an Anker 3.0 9+1 hub. However I am running Linux under VMWare Fusion for mining, I don't know if that accounts for the difference.

I did initially have problems getting all the eruptors working when I chained the USB hubs, but with each hub plugged into a usb port on the mac all eruptors work.

Instead of bootcamp you could try a trial of VMWare Fusion and install Windows to see if it makes a difference.