BPMC Launch BF1 USB miner - probably the fastest USB miner in the World

[xstr8guy]

You do know that I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm doing, lol.  I tried entering the above and I got this...

Code:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

 Apologies. Please pre-pend "sudo " to the start of each of those apt-get's.

 I'm a little bit nuts and run as root whilst tinkering...

eg;

Code:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Bleah!

 

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutlsxx27 libgpg-error-dev
  libidn11-dev libldap2-dev libp11-kit-dev librtmp-dev libtasn1-3-dev
Suggested packages:
  libcurl3-dbg libgcrypt11-doc gnutls26-doc gnutls-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutlsxx27
  libgpg-error-dev libidn11-dev libldap2-dev libp11-kit-dev librtmp-dev libtasn1-3-dev
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,742 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Abort.

Why did it abort?

Ok, closed and restarted the terminal window and got that package to load.  Now what?

Thanks for your patience Xian!

[xstr8guy]

This looked important...

Code:

 [2013-09-25 19:30:52] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM0                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM0: get 00000000, should: 000187a2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM1                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM1: get 00000000, should: 000187a2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM2: get 00000000, should: 000187a2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM3                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM3: get 00000000,

[Xian01]

This looked important...

Unplug, replug a stick, and PM me the output of;

Code:

dmesg | tail -40

Lets move this to PM if you are unfamiliar with Linux.

[Luke-Jr]

Where the hell are the Windows drivers for these god damn pieces of shit?

It really shouldn't be hard to roll your own... I'll probably do it in under 10 minutes once I get one 

This looked important...

Code:

 [2013-09-25 19:30:52] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM0                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM0: get 00000000, should: 000187a2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM1                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM1: get 00000000, should: 000187a2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM2: get 00000000, should: 000187a2                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/ttyACM3                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-09-25 19:30:53] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/ttyACM3: get 00000000,

These don't like Icarus probes, so you can't use -S all with them. Try -S bigpic:all

[Beastlymac]

Where the hell are the Windows drivers for these

Here is the alpha windows version. It is not 100% ready but feel free to give it a shot.
https://mega.co.nz/#fmcBIRVKZL

[xstr8guy]

Where the hell are the Windows drivers for these

Here is the alpha windows version. It is not 100% ready but feel free to give it a shot.
https://mega.co.nz/#fmcBIRVKZL

Check your link.  I get nothing but an option to upload something.

[xstr8guy]

Where the hell are the Windows drivers for these god damn pieces of shit?

It really shouldn't be hard to roll your own... I'll probably do it in under 10 minutes once I get one 

This looked important...

These don't like Icarus probes, so you can't use -S all with them. Try -S bigpic:all

I'm still getting nothing but the CPU cores hashing.  Is there something else I should be doing here?..

Code:

sudo bfgminer -o http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 -u username_workername -p password -S bigpic:all

[Bicknellski]

Cklovias is close to a solution I think... he has his BitFury USB mining.

[xstr8guy]

Anyone have a working Windows driver yet?

I tried the VM/Ubuntu method and even installed a homemade driver someone sent me.  And one of those things destroyed my main computer.  I keep getting the BSoD and I can't even recover Windows 7.  Trying a fresh install of Windows 8 now.   

[Beastlymac]

Anyone have a working Windows driver yet?

I tried the VM/Ubuntu method and even installed a homemade driver someone sent me.  And one of those things destroyed my main computer.  I keep getting the BSoD and I can't even recover Windows 7.  Trying a fresh install of Windows 8 now.  

Windows drivers and compiled version from the ee are freshly uploaded.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q235dn
or
http://www.mediafire.com/download/819me4zvdju8lyg/bfgminerWin.zip
^alpha drivers.

[bitterdog]

Anyone have a working Windows driver yet?

I tried the VM/Ubuntu method and even installed a homemade driver someone sent me.  And one of those things destroyed my main computer.  I keep getting the BSoD and I can't even recover Windows 7.  Trying a fresh install of Windows 8 now.   

Windows drivers and compiled version from the ee are freshly uploaded.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q235dn

nice!

[18RATTT]

there are 2 files in the bfgminerWin.zip
i. bf1.inf (this is the bf1 usb windows driver)
go to "Device Manager" > "Ports (COM & LPT)", you will see the bf1 usb listed here, double click it, update driver > browse my computer for software > go to bf1.inf

ii. the bfgminer folder with batch file included (#MINE.bat)
simply edit the file in notepad, add your bitcoin address, save, run the batch file to start mining.

[xstr8guy]

Anyone have a working Windows driver yet?

I tried the VM/Ubuntu method and even installed a homemade driver someone sent me.  And one of those things destroyed my main computer.  I keep getting the BSoD and I can't even recover Windows 7.  Trying a fresh install of Windows 8 now.   

Windows drivers and compiled version from the ee are freshly uploaded.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q235dn

Driver won't install on Windows 8 because it isn't signed. 
 

[xstr8guy]

Thanks for all the help everyone... finally got them hashing!

[xstr8guy]

By request...

[JayCoin]

Anyone have a working Windows driver yet?

I tried the VM/Ubuntu method and even installed a homemade driver someone sent me.  And one of those things destroyed my main computer.  I keep getting the BSoD and I can't even recover Windows 7.  Trying a fresh install of Windows 8 now.  

Windows drivers and compiled version from the ee are freshly uploaded.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q235dn
^alpha drivers.

That is not a very good site to distribute files on.  Please use a better distribution method for files. This site is a virus/adware/malware haven.

[Beastlymac]

Anyone have a working Windows driver yet?

I tried the VM/Ubuntu method and even installed a homemade driver someone sent me.  And one of those things destroyed my main computer.  I keep getting the BSoD and I can't even recover Windows 7.  Trying a fresh install of Windows 8 now.  

Windows drivers and compiled version from the ee are freshly uploaded.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q235dn
^alpha drivers.

That is not a very good site to distribute files on.  Please use a better distribution method for files. This site is a virus/adware/malware haven.

here it is on mediafire
http://www.mediafire.com/download/819me4zvdju8lyg/bfgminerWin.zip

[tool_462]

I loaded it up once and it ran just fine at ~2.65GH/s for a few hours, then I restarted my PC (changed nothing) and now when I run it the only thing detected is OCL 0 (CPU) and it won't find my BF1.  Device Manager shows no issues and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers and a fresh DL of the BFGMiner.

Any bright ideas?

[xstr8guy]

I loaded it up once and it ran just fine at ~2.65GH/s for a few hours, then I restarted my PC (changed nothing) and now when I run it the only thing detected is OCL 0 (CPU) and it won't find my BF1.  Device Manager shows no issues and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers and a fresh DL of the BFGMiner.

Any bright ideas?

Thanks for the warning!  I won't restart my computer if I can help it.  But sorry, no ideas. 

[-ck]

Cklovias is close to a solution I think... he has his BitFury USB mining.

Working fine on linux. Windows hates me and refuses to behave