Setting Up Antminer S1 with Wi-Fi Antenna

[reduxde]

I managed to lock myself out of the Antminer once already trying to set up the wi-fi antenna, so clearly I'm either over or under-thinking this.

Following Dogie's fabulous guide here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355387
And sushi's guide here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.0

Both state something to the effect of "add your wireless network settings". 

Here is explicitly what i'm doing:
Network > Interfaces > WiFi > Scan for networks
Putting in the password for the network.  It default to creating a new interface called WWAN.
After hitting apply, both WAN and WWAN connect, but they each seem to take a different IP address (the WAN stays on 192.168.1.99, but the wireless jumps on DHCP somewhere, generally 192.168.1.6 or 192.168.1.7).
I unplug the Ethernet cable & it continues to mine for bitcoins using the wifi.

Great, except the problem is if I unplug the power cord & plug it back in, it can't re-establish the connection.  I've attempted taking down my routers firewall completely, creating a port forwarding for my mining port to the dynamic IP address (which is not practical if I have 2 machines mining off wifi), and bridging the connections (which made my machine totally inaccessable via ethernet & forced me to hard reset it).

Once powered back on, the ONLY way to get it mining again is to plug the ethernet cable in for about 30 seconds so it can get connected again, then unplug the cable.  The problem here is that I would like to set the machine up in another room, which means walking an ethernet cable in there and "jump starting" it every time it loses power, which is not particularly practical.

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[elduce]

Hi,
Try to switch WAN to DHCP. By the way, I also had to use hard reset after bringing of interfaces

you could find it using printed version of forum page & find on page browser function in sushi thread

Here are details https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.msg4529537#msg4529537

[alfabitcoin]

Reduxde
Please do not start a new thread of each problem you have. There is a antminer troubleshoot thread so post there.

[Gordon Bleu]

Reduxde
Please do not start a new thread of each problem you have. There is a antminer troubleshoot thread so post there.

S1 Troubleshoot Thread more than 1000 Entries,  do you really expect one to read all that?

[alfabitcoin]

Reduxde
Please do not start a new thread of each problem you have. There is a antminer troubleshoot thread so post there.

S1 Troubleshoot Thread more than 1000 Entries,  do you really expect one to read all that?

Have you even read my comment? Its not about reading the whole thread but posting questions as a new thread.
What would happen if each member start a new thread with the concrete question?
He can ask questions regarding ant setup in appropiate thread and wait for an answer, like everybidy else.

Edit
He posted problem as a new thread earlier, however this new thread seems to turn up for solution how to setup antminer wifi.
It need to replace solution post with opening post and thread got a purpose and can be usefull

[reduxde]

THATS GOT IT!

OK so just to duplicate ALL the information I found useful here (thanks to elduce for passing on mwax321 suggestion), here is how to get the wifi antenna working & what to do if you screw it up.

1) Select WiFi, scan for networks, add your wifi network with whatever the defaults are (create a new WWAN interface, etc).  Just do it the way you would if you had no idea what you were doing.
2) Go back and select the interface for WAN, edit it, and change from STATIC to DHCP CLIENT and click the button directly below it to change the type (not the save or save & apply, but directly next to it to change the type, it might be like "REALLY CHANGE TYPE?", click yes).
3) Unplug the machine, unplug the ethernet cable, plug the electricity back in, wait about 30 seconds.

In the even you screwed up your wifi settings, there is a RESET button on the "card" that the ethernet cable plugs into with white text labeling "S2" (i think, my eyes aren't great).  On my particular machine this button did nothing, so i had to manually do a hard reset.  On the original version, there may not be a button.

If you completely f~k up your machine and cant get back into it, this is how to reset
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUa75bkY.jpg&t=536&c=Ah9HaW4XprLEGA
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUa75bkY.jpg&t=536&c=Ah9HaW4XprLEGA

I can't draw on this image, but i'll describe as best I can using my newbish vocabulary.
Two points of interest:
The big blueish-purpleish chip thing where the wifi antenna wire plugs in.  On the left side of that are 11 connections to the green silicon board.  Not the one on the very bottom, but the one right above that (2nd one).
To the left and up from that about an inch away there is a red light.  Directly left of that are two metal dots.  The upper-most dot that's closest to the red light.

You need to bend a paperclip and touch both of these at the same time while the machine is plugged in.  Not for very long, half a second is all it takes, the machine (and possibly you) will have a sudden heart attack and go completely dark & silent very abruptly.  There should be no risk of electrocution here, but bear in mind I'm just kind of stumbling through to-do lists without a good understanding of what I'm doing here, so no guarantees.  After a lengthy (was nearly 10 minutes for me) boot up, the machine will put itself back on 192.168.1.99.  I never needed to change my computer to static IP or change my router to 192.168.2.1 for any of this, but apparently the older models default to 192.168.2.99 so you need to move your router from 192.168.2.1 (which will kick all your computers off the wifi).

I now have this noisy stinky filthy (possibly radioactive) machine grinding away in my basement.

I love the Antminer S1, and I really like this company, but I'm also quite happy to have this thing out of my room

edit:
Sorry, I actually took about an hour pawing through the thread & didn't find what I was looking for.  Rather than having every possible problem the machine can encounter all in one thread it would make sense to have threads addressing and solving specific problems for better indexing.

Feel free to delete the thread

[mutex]

Thanks for the guide, got my miner working via Wi-Fi!

[J_Dubbs]

I'll need to do this soon... Any performance difference with WiFi?

Hopefully this is easy...

[DannyDee]

I'll need to do this soon... Any performance difference with WiFi?

Hopefully this is easy...

No difference in performance for me. I'm still running at a stable OC'ed 200ghs off of wifi for days now with no interruption.

[rammy2k2]

u will get lots stales / rejects with wifi

[ineedit]

u will get lots stales / rejects with wifi

Only if you have a crap WiFi connection, if your WiFi is working correctly then there is no difference.

[qosmio]

thank you , I also managed to access my ant s1 thru wifi with 192.168.1.136 but maybe yours 135 or 134 try a view until connect, and to complete the post #6 instructions https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=444361.msg4884679#msg4884679 dont forget to press save and apply b4 restart, I did not do that 1st.

[cp1]

Your router should also be able to assign it a static IP

[qosmio]

because many posts state that they cannot access their ant thru wifi but mine is ok. also no stales here

[btmtb]

THATS GOT IT!

Also using S1 via wifi here. This is actually the set of steps I took and it works. The silly issues I had that gave me trouble are both mentioned here so this thread has value. The fact I was originally mining via Eth meant I'd configured a static IP on the WAN interface. I couldn't access the web interface when solely on wifi until I switch WAN back to DHCP as mentioned about, and, most stupidly, I didn't do a full reboot after finally unplugging the Eth, as soon as I'd done this and fired it back up, the GUI was available as normal on the WirelessWAN IP.

[Warren]

THATS GOT IT!

OK so just to duplicate ALL the information I found useful here (thanks to elduce for passing on mwax321 suggestion), here is how to get the wifi antenna working & what to do if you screw it up.

1) Select WiFi, scan for networks, add your wifi network with whatever the defaults are (create a new WWAN interface, etc).  Just do it the way you would if you had no idea what you were doing.
2) Go back and select the interface for WAN, edit it, and change from STATIC to DHCP CLIENT and click the button directly below it to change the type (not the save or save & apply, but directly next to it to change the type, it might be like "REALLY CHANGE TYPE?", click yes).
3) Unplug the machine, unplug the ethernet cable, plug the electricity back in, wait about 30 seconds.

In the even you screwed up your wifi settings, there is a RESET button on the "card" that the ethernet cable plugs into with white text labeling "S2" (i think, my eyes aren't great).  On my particular machine this button did nothing, so i had to manually do a hard reset.  On the original version, there may not be a button.

If you completely f~k up your machine and cant get back into it, this is how to reset
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUa75bkY.jpg&t=536&c=Ah9HaW4XprLEGA


I can't draw on this image, but i'll describe as best I can using my newbish vocabulary.
Two points of interest:
The big blueish-purpleish chip thing where the wifi antenna wire plugs in.  On the left side of that are 11 connections to the green silicon board.  Not the one on the very bottom, but the one right above that (2nd one).
To the left and up from that about an inch away there is a red light.  Directly left of that are two metal dots.  The upper-most dot that's closest to the red light.

You need to bend a paperclip and touch both of these at the same time while the machine is plugged in.  Not for very long, half a second is all it takes, the machine (and possibly you) will have a sudden heart attack and go completely dark & silent very abruptly.  There should be no risk of electrocution here, but bear in mind I'm just kind of stumbling through to-do lists without a good understanding of what I'm doing here, so no guarantees.  After a lengthy (was nearly 10 minutes for me) boot up, the machine will put itself back on 192.168.1.99.  I never needed to change my computer to static IP or change my router to 192.168.2.1 for any of this, but apparently the older models default to 192.168.2.99 so you need to move your router from 192.168.2.1 (which will kick all your computers off the wifi).

I now have this noisy stinky filthy (possibly radioactive) machine grinding away in my basement.

I love the Antminer S1, and I really like this company, but I'm also quite happy to have this thing out of my room

edit:
Sorry, I actually took about an hour pawing through the thread & didn't find what I was looking for.  Rather than having every possible problem the machine can encounter all in one thread it would make sense to have threads addressing and solving specific problems for better indexing.

Feel free to delete the thread

Just want to say that your post is appreciated, and this thread is useful.

My miners have been running fine on the cable, but I needed to go to wifi for a while and couldn't get it to work until I found your step-by-step instructions. I still can't connect to the admin area without a cable, but at least they are now happily mining away over wifi. So thanks a lot for the useful post!

[qosmio]

try to access your wifi ant with 192.168.1.135 or 136 or 134

[dogie]

If you have a problem, post in the thread in my sig. Separate troubleshooting threads just dilute the knowledge.

[S4VV4S]

because many posts state that they cannot access their ant thru wifi but mine is ok. also no stales here

Shitty speeds though.... 

[qosmio]

only 32min test, did not oc since my psu are very low on amps. soon i get new psu and then go oc