GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[et2468]

Hello, I am a newcomer to the tow, I bought a newpac, can you advise me what pool you are using and how to start towing.
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[NotFuzzyWarm]

Hello, I am a newcomer to the tow, I bought a newpac, can you advise me what pool you are using and how to start towing.
well thank you

Well for one you of course need a Bitcoin wallet and an address from it to receive rewards.

That said, considering these are made for solo aka 'lottery' mining there are really only 2 choices for pools to solo mine at:
My personal choice would be KanoPool with its 0.9% for normal pooled mining 🐈  and Solo 0.5% fee, Kano's thread and link to the pool is here. Yes you have to register for KanoPool but that gives you access to excellent stats for tracking the miner performance. I might add that Sidehack uses KanoPool for all burn-in testing of his gear  

Your other choice is -ck's solo-only pool but he charges a 2% fee if you find a block, his thread and link to pool is here. Minimal stats provided and no historical data is kept.

[gt_addict]

Have you tried wiggling the usb cable where it plugs in to the unit? Only because (as youre probably aware) mine had intermittent issues and it was the mini-usb socket. 

[MoparMiningLLC]

Have you tried wiggling the usb cable where it plugs in to the unit? Only because (as youre probably aware) mine had intermittent issues and it was the mini-usb socket.  

dont think it is the usb as the pc picks it up as soon as it is plugged in - just shows it with zero chips hashing

I need to look and see if this is the one I had replaced or if this is one of the ones I have had the whole time.

Here is what cg miner shows when it is plugged in


Here is the video - look at top left - the light is different just slightly - not sure if the light flashing a different color than it used to means anything.
https://streamable.com/2ex4be

[et2468]

Hello, please, I'm trying to start mining with newpac, I've been trying to connect to a swimming pool for 5 days, but unsuccessfully. Can someone write me detailed instructions on how to do this. Thank you

[gt_addict]

Yea that top left one is constantly flashing like a strobe. Not just for share submissions.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Hello, please, I'm trying to start mining with newpac, I've been trying to connect to a swimming pool for 5 days, but unsuccessfully. Can someone write me detailed instructions on how to do this. Thank you

What pool are you trying to use? Did you see my above reply? Other than that, 1st page of this thread should have all the information you need.

Um, what web translator are you using? 1st it thinks 'mining' is 'tow' or 'towing', now it suggests using 'swimming pool' instead of 'mining pool'... 

[MoparMiningLLC]

Yea that top left one is constantly flashing like a strobe. Not just for share submissions.

yea - just dont know if that means something specifically.

[gt_addict]

Yea that top left one is constantly flashing like a strobe. Not just for share submissions.

yea - just dont know if that means something specifically.

Personally I’ve never seen that before. I had newpacs occasionally have the share submission led stay lit constantly but never seen/heard of your particular case before.

[jeyzeus]

Have you tried wiggling the usb cable where it plugs in to the unit? Only because (as youre probably aware) mine had intermittent issues and it was the mini-usb socket.  

dont think it is the usb as the pc picks it up as soon as it is plugged in - just shows it with zero chips hashing

I need to look and see if this is the one I had replaced or if this is one of the ones I have had the whole time.

Here is what cg miner shows when it is plugged in


Here is the video - look at top left - the light is different just slightly - not sure if the light flashing a different color than it used to means anything.
https://streamable.com/2ex4be

i'd actually try to rule out the USB cause i think that might be it.

i had a similar issue with mine. I didn't think it was the USB cause on windows it made the USB sound whenever i plugged in & i was able to initialize mining, but it always crashed immediately after. tried different PSUs computers...i eventually got a Pi cause I thought it was a straight up windows thing then got a similar issue on the Pi. Instead of hashing, i just got a "zero chips found" notice. unfortunately i don't recall if it looked similar to your screen but I only had 1 running around that time so that could be why it closed after.

I resolved it by opened everything up and just cleaning it out a bit.  I applied a bit of pressure on the USB area and cleaned it with a tiny bit of ISO. "bro science" as hell but it seemed to work and then i have had no issues since.

[MoparMiningLLC]

if the usb port is bad - I dont really know how to test that. and I really dont want to wiggle it around. I would hate for the USB to break lose. I need to find out if this unit is the one that sidehack repaired recently and sent back to me.

[Davy4260]

Hi everyone  i have a problem i cant get my freq on my newpac not  higher  it starts on 100 mhz and stays there  i try differd things

*Install cgminer again
* created a text .sh file in sgminer folder with
 ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://sha256.mining-dutch.nl:9996 -u  -p  --suggest-diff 10 --gekko-newpac-freq 200  
And start it here

I run it on a raspberry pi 4

cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-04 15:14:03.609]
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 (5s):8.784G (1m):971.8M (5m):199.2M (15m):66.66M (avg):11.70Gh/s
 A:65536  R:0  HW:0  WU:241.7/m
 Connected to sha256.mining-dutch.nl diff 256 with stratum as user
 Block: 12b57583...  Diff:51.8G  Started: [15:14:06.782]  Best share: 215
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSH 10036027: BM1387:02+ 100.00MHz T:100 P:60  (287:188) | 56.1% WU:^77% | 1
6.87G / 17.30Gh/s WU:241.7/m----------------------------------------------------
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.087] Started cgminer 4.11.1
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.087] Loaded configuration file /home/pi/.cgminer/cgminer.c
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 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.087] Probing for an alive pool
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.305] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 65536
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.305] Network diff set to 1.49G
 [2021-10-04 15:14:02.367] Accepted untracked stratum share from pool 0
 [2021-10-04 15:14:03.335] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-04 15:14:03.608] 0: GSH 0 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036027)
 [2021-10-04 15:14:06.767] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 256
 [2021-10-04 15:14:06.782] Network diff set to 51.8G
 [2021-10-04 15:14:06.782] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 7076
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Maybe someone can help me out

I dont find a conf file like some people  suggested
 

[jeyzeus]

instead of using the .sh file, have you tried just opening terminal and running the command?

I don't think there's a difference but maybe that might work 

[Davy4260]

instead of using the .sh file, have you tried just opening terminal and running the command?

I don't think there's a difference but maybe that might work 


I think the problem is the terminal today i look to my pool and i see hashrates over 100ghz  and that my stick goes alot of times offline  but my  raspberry says hashrates between 0 en 22 mhz  and  100mhz is in the top and just the accepted blocks no offlines  so i dont know  kust really weird

[primaris]

Hi guys,

I’ve just ordered 3 GekkoScience Compac F sticks, and I was hoping that someone would be able to answer this question for me:

Can I run them together with my R606 and my Newpacs using CGMiner, or must I use some other program? In case it matters, I?m using a windows 10 laptop as the head for my miners.

Thanks in advance!

[NotFuzzyWarm]

All of Sidehack's sticks & pods can be ran off of a single instance of cgminer. The latest 4.12 version done by Kano is needed for the Compaq-F's as the earlier versions done by vh does not have the driver for the F's.

[primaris]

All of Sidehack's sticks & pods can be ran off of a single instance of cgminer. The latest 4.12 version done by Kano is needed for the Compaq-F's as the earlier versions done by vh does not have the driver for the F's.

Thanks!

[primaris]

All of Sidehack's sticks & pods can be ran off of a single instance of cgminer. The latest 4.12 version done by Kano is needed for the Compaq-F's as the earlier versions done by vh does not have the driver for the F's.

Thanks!

So, I’ve just searched GitHub and I can’t find 4.12 but maybe I missed it? Would you mind sharing a link if you know where I can get it for windows 10?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

It is all spelled out in the Compaq-F support thread

Direct locations:
The master git for cgminer is https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer

CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

That includes linux compile steps, but to repeat, on linux:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev git

cd
git clone https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer.git
cd cgminer

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko --enable-icarus

make

CGMiner Windows 10 32bit binary
https://kano.is/cgminer.zip
It will probably work on older windows, but I'm only testing it on Windows 10

The instructions to compile it yourself on Windows 10 are here:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/windows-build.txt

As with all USB miners on Windows, you must install Zadig and setup the miner.
This is documented in the CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

[primaris]

It is all spelled out in the Compaq-F support thread

Direct locations:
The master git for cgminer is https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer

CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

That includes linux compile steps, but to repeat, on linux:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev git

cd
git clone https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer.git
cd cgminer

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko --enable-icarus

make

CGMiner Windows 10 32bit binary
https://kano.is/cgminer.zip
It will probably work on older windows, but I'm only testing it on Windows 10

The instructions to compile it yourself on Windows 10 are here:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/windows-build.txt

As with all USB miners on Windows, you must install Zadig and setup the miner.
This is documented in the CGMiner README https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README

Thanks for the info! This isn’t the easiest site to navigate, I guess I must’ve missed that thread.