Running 200GH/s Avalon via a computer

[everest556]

Hello everyone.

I am trying to run a 200GH/s Avalon by connecting it directly to a laptop. I've opened the enclosure, disconnected the USB, connected that USB port to my laptop and run cgminer. I'm getting:

AVA0: Reset failed! Not an Avalon? (0: 94 5c c3 77)
AVA0: Idling 26 miners

Then a few more error messages like that. And no hashing is being done, of course.

What am I not doing right?

[vpasic]

Avalon 200gh?
Antminer? Photos? Link?

It's standalone unit! Connect it to router to be on same LAN as your laptop and enter miners ip address in explorer.

[everest556]

Here's a pic of the miner: http://imgur.com/TbZ6uwO
These are 16 miners with 10 ASICs per miner. So, the total hash rate would actually be 208GH/s.

I don't have access to a router, I'm using a WiFi hotspot.

[vpasic]

Check the network card inside. It should be tplink card.
Do you see wifi antenna?
I'm afraid that youll gona need accoes to any router to huck it up with your laptop to call ip address and to bring miner settings on the screen to set up wifi acces.
Router don't need to be connected to internet, you just need it to be like bridge between pc and miner.

Update:
Connect your laptop and miner with lan cable and enter miner ip address to enter setup and configure wifi.

[everest556]

The card does not have an antenna. I can still detect WiFi networks and connect to them, however.

I connected the miner to the laptop via Ethernet cable and entered my pool info into cgminer settings, connected to my WiFi network, but cgminer shows no mining being done. This happened before, and I think the problem may be with the tplink card. That's why I'm trying to run it through a laptop to begin with.

[everest556]

So, any recommendations on how to get it to run off laptop?

[vpasic]

you can't mine with that miner that way.
if wifi on miner network card is broken you need to get new one.
or buy some nice Access Point, use lan cable to connect miner, enable Client mode in AP and connect it to wifi that you are catching.
there is no other way.

[everest556]

How/where do I buy a replacement miner network card with WiFi?

Edit: and it's not just WiFi. I've tried connecting it via a router by a friend's, and it still wouldn't mine. Is there a way i can get a replacement of the entire miner module (tplink?)?

[vpasic]

here you go
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TP-LINK-TL-WR703N-150Mbps-150M-Nano-Mini-Portable-WiFi-3G-Wireless-Router-AP-S9-/390709882710?pt=COMP_EN_Routers&hash=item5af81faf56

[everest556]

Nice.

And which is the part that has cgminer installed? I'd like to get a replacement of that; I'm starting to think there may be a problem in it.

[vpasic]

contact seller that sold you a miner and ask for it.
It's installed within tplink. it is custom rom linux.

[everest556]

Not really an option to get it off the seller.
But why is there no way to get it?

[vpasic]

here is seller that sell them here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=379819.0,
try contact him,
he can send you new card and help you solve the problem.

or install teamviewer, connect pc with miner via lan and let me check on it.

[everest556]

Thanks, I'll message him.

Alternatively, do you think I could use a RaspberryPi with a MinePeon OS to mine via?

[vpasic]

probably, not sure tho.

[-ck]

you can't mine with that miner that way.
there is no other way.

That's wrong. Avalons work fine plugged into a PC with a USB cable.

[everest556]

So, what am I not doing?
And what about power? When I disconnect that internal USB and connect it to laptop, the fans are no longer blowing.

[-ck]

So, what am I not doing?
And what about power? When I disconnect that internal USB and connect it to laptop, the fans are no longer blowing.

Use the latest cgminer and give it the correct command line options in avalon-options.

[everest556]

Where can I see the possible commands I can use?

[ionutrai]

I run this command when the Avalon is connected to my PC:

Code:

cgminer -o uk1.ghash.io:3333 -O x.x:x -D --verbose --avalon-options 115200:16:10:45:1024:55 --api-allow "W:127.0.0.1" --api-listen

But I get this error:

Code:

AVA0: Reset failed! not an Avalon? 

[2014-01-30 13:41:59] Started cgminer 3.8.5
 [2014-01-30 13:41:59] USB scan devices: checking for AVA devices
 [2014-01-30 13:41:59] RES: thread starting
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA looking for and found BTB 0403:6001
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] USB lock avalon 1-6
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] RES: avalon (1:6) lock=1
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] USB res lock avalon 1-6
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] RES: avalon (1:6) lock ok=1
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] USB init, iManufacturer mismatch - BTB device 1:6
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] Found FTDI vs Burnin Electronics
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] USB free BTB
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] USB init, iManufacturer mismatch - BBF device 1:6
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] Found FTDI vs Burnin Electronics
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] USB free BBF
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] USB init - AVA device 1:6 usbver=0200 prod='FT232R USB UART' manuf='FTDI' serial='A801XEE2'
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: reset got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: latency got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: data got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: setbaud got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: setmodemctrl got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: setflowctrl got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: setmodemctrl 2 got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: setflowctrl 2 got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] Avalon: Sent(1):
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000000   ad                                               |.               |
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: usb_write got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: Get avalon read got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0 reset: get:
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000000   aa 55 aa 55 00 00 00 00  d0 1f 69 01 70 94 06 00 |.U.U......i.p...|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000010   d0 1f 69 01 34 9a 06 00  d0 9a 06 00 80 43 69 01 |..i.4........Ci.|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000020   80 43 69 01 00 cc f2 b6  00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |.Ci.............|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000030   70 94 06 00 d0 1f 69 01  d0 9a 06 00 38 52 02 00 |p.....i.....8R..|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: Reset failed! not an Avalon? (8: aa 55 aa 55)
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] Avalon: Sent(96):
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000000   ac 20 2d 10 0b 00 40 1f  74 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 |. -...@.t.......|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000010   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000020   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000030   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 99 99 99 19 |................|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000040   32 33 33 33 cb cc cc 4c  64 66 66 66 fd ff ff 7f |2333...Ldfff....|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000050   96 99 99 99 2f 33 33 b3  c8 cc cc cc 61 66 66 e6 |..../33.....aff.|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: usb_write got err 0
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] Avalon: Sent(96):
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000000   a4 20 2d 10 0b 00 40 1f  74 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 |. -...@.t.......|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000010   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000020   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000030   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 99 99 99 19 |................|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000040   32 33 33 33 cb cc cc 4c  64 66 66 66 fd ff ff 7f |2333...Ldfff....|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] 00000050   96 99 99 99 2f 33 33 b3  c8 cc cc cc 61 66 66 e6 |..../33.....aff.|
 [2014-01-30 13:42:00] AVA0: usb_write got err 0