ASIC USB Help, new to forum

[Oryhara]

I am aware there are most likely dozens of posts on this as I have been reading them over for the past day and a half.

I am new to the forum so I must post here first, sorry for asking a question that has been asked before most likely.


I have acquired a new USB erupter and I am having problems getting both BFG and CG miner to pick it up. I have been GUI mining for a few weeks and have accumulated a few dollars worth of bitcoin so my wallet and understanding of the system is not a problem.

I beleive i have correctly compiled a windows 32 cgminer with mingw but I am still getting the no devices detected prompt when loading cgminer. I get a connection to my pool and login just fine but CGminer never picks up the USB miner.

I have also corrected the driver problem with zadig, that was my first issue.

Again, I have been over many many forums and read through the read me files in cgminer.

Any responses are appreciated, even if they are just to recheck all of the steps involved. I am not great with a compiler and some of the steps may not have come out correctly but when I run the cgminer folder that I put together CGminer does load normally just does not find any devices.

[Dirtyissa]

have you try the tool zadig to isntall the usb win drivers?
it helped me by mine problem with the Bi*Furry.

and look in the cgminer readme.

good luck

[Oryhara]

Yes, i have run the zadig tool and it does correct the error for CG miner, I can also load the standard drivers and have BFG pick it up. I have watched CGminer change when I change the drivers...i e gives me an error then I change the driver and I do not get the error any longer.

My computer seems to be picking up the erupter without issue and allows me to re-assign the drivers just fine. I just cant get BGC or CG miner to pick up.

I am also using a command target with icarus timing, everything loads and logs into pool just fine. BFG will pick up my CPU but never picks up the erupter. CG miner never picks up the miner.

[ScripterRon]

I'm using BFGMiner with USB erupters.  The secret was to specify --scan-serial erupter:all when starting the miner.  You don't need the icarus options with the latest version of BFGMiner (3.6.0)

Here is what I am using with 15 erupters:

  bfgminer -o http:<pool address> -u <worker id> -p <worker password> -G --scan-serial erupter:all

Ron