GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[NotFuzzyWarm]

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[cBrix1984]

I changed it, sorry.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

I changed it, sorry.

Merit given for doing that. Too many folks just ignore helpful suggestions.

[o_solo_miner]

the Raspi WH got just one processor, so you should run make without j-2.
try it with make only.

[garetjax]

I see someone hit a block with the USB stick miner running 4.1.12?   What is the latest cgminer for R606?

Thanks

[NotFuzzyWarm]

I see someone hit a block with the USB stick miner running 4.1.12?   What is the latest cgminer for R606?

Thanks

The 606 is not cgminer version specific per-se but it DOES require that the version has drivers for it. Prior to Kano updating cgminer to run the F, all Gekko products required using VH's fork of 4.11. It will run just fine using the latest 4.12.0 from Kano as he has included drivers for all of the Gekko products as well as all the previous legacy drivers for other chips.

[cBrix1984]

the Raspi WH got just one processor, so you should run make without j-2.
try it with make only.

/usr/bin/ld: cgminer-driver-gekko.o:(.bss+0xd48): multiple definition of `modminer_drv'; cgminer-cgminer.o:(.bss+0x2078): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: cgminer-driver-gekko.o:(.bss+0xdd0): multiple definition of `bitforce_drv'; cgminer-cgminer.o:(.bss+0x1ff0): first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:893: cgminer] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/pi/mining/newpac/cgminer“ wird verlassen
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1837: all-recursive] ERROR 1
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/pi/mining/newpac/cgminer“ wird verlassen
make: *** [Makefile:796: all] ERROR 2

STILL THE SAME ERROR...

[o_solo_miner]

did you try a sudo make?

[kano]

...

/usr/bin/ld: cgminer-driver-gekko.o:(.bss+0xd48): multiple definition of `modminer_drv'; cgminer-cgminer.o:(.bss+0x2078): first defined here
/usr/bin/ld: cgminer-driver-gekko.o:(.bss+0xdd0): multiple definition of `bitforce_drv'; cgminer-cgminer.o:(.bss+0x1ff0): first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:893: cgminer] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/home/pi/mining/newpac/cgminer“ wird verlassen
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1837: all-recursive] ERROR 1
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/pi/mining/newpac/cgminer“ wird verlassen
make: *** [Makefile:796: all] ERROR 2

STILL THE SAME ERROR...

My updated version includes a README build comment that may fix this...

-fcommon

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/README#L153

Alas you are compiling someone else's version, so no idea if that is the fix.
I had to 'fix' a large number of compile warnings and a few errors when I pulled the code into the master cgminer

Read here for 4.12.0:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.msg58200639#msg58200639

-j has no effect on if it will compile

[Biffa]

use need to run cgminer as sudo

[cBrix1984]

Everything works so far with version 4.12.0. Except for the frequency setting, only run at 100 GHz

[garetjax]

I see someone hit a block with the USB stick miner running 4.1.12?   What is the latest cgminer for R606?

Thanks

The 606 is not cgminer version specific per-se but it DOES require that the version has drivers for it. Prior to Kano updating cgminer to run the F, all Gekko products required using VH's fork of 4.11. It will run just fine using the latest 4.12.0 from Kano as he has included drivers for all of the Gekko products as well as all the previous legacy drivers for other chips.

Thanks - I pulled Kano's version and compiled for my Raspberry Pi and it works great.

[Z2Vv]

Hi, I need help.

I have my fan that broke down and my newpac heated up well.

I have a chip that is peeled off and I have not found it. I want to replace it but I'm not what it is. It is one that is just behind the bm1387, has side of the orange block.

If someone can tell me what it is so I can fix one.
Thank

[Binerod]

Forgive me newbie here. I'm not hashing anything with f2pool. I got some mining with zpool though.

Windows 10, newpac, latest cgminer.

Couple problems:

1) cmd window disappears but cgminer is running in services. I'd like to know why it closes and how to fix that.

2) this is what I see in the log file when trying to mine in f2pool

 [2022-02-13 16:31:48.691] Started cgminer 4.11.1
 [2022-02-13 16:31:48.697] Probing for an alive pool
 [2022-02-13 16:31:49.167] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 65536
 [2022-02-13 16:31:49.167] Network diff set to 26.7T
 [2022-02-13 16:31:49.886] No devices detected!
 [2022-02-13 16:31:49.886] Waiting for USB hotplug devices or press q to quit
 [2022-02-13 16:32:11.862] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 723176
 [2022-02-13 16:32:49.476] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:34:20.619] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32768
 [2022-02-13 16:35:07.914] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 16384
 [2022-02-13 16:35:55.584] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:36:36.714] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8192
 [2022-02-13 16:39:27.765] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:42:57.153] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 723177
 [2022-02-13 16:43:05.506] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 723178
 [2022-02-13 16:43:12.420] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 723179
 [2022-02-13 16:43:59.400] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:45:10.738] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2022-02-13 16:45:11.111] Pool 0 successfully negotiated resume with the same session ID
 [2022-02-13 16:45:11.193] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 65536
 [2022-02-13 16:45:11.193] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:47:03.136] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:47:51.303] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32768
 [2022-02-13 16:48:35.742] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 16384
 [2022-02-13 16:49:25.436] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8192
 [2022-02-13 16:50:08.619] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:53:41.177] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:54:24.558] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 723180
 [2022-02-13 16:55:09.186] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:58:13.140] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2022-02-13 16:58:34.206] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2022-02-13 16:58:34.488] Pool 0 successfully negotiated resume with the same session ID
 [2022-02-13 16:58:34.587] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 65536
 [2022-02-13 16:58:34.587] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart

[Binerod]

Forgive me newbie here. I'm not hashing anything with f2pool. I got some mining with zpool though.

Windows 10, newpac, latest cgminer.

Couple problems:

1) cmd window disappears but cgminer is running in services. I'd like to know why it closes and how to fix that.

2) this is what I see in the log file when trying to mine in f2pool

 [2022-02-13 16:31:48.691] Started cgminer 4.11.1

I got it to mine f2pool.

Looks like cmd window is not supposed to stay open?

[kai-made]

Another newbie here.  Took a look at this forum like 8 different times before realizing it was organized in reverse, i.e. newest last.  Now that I know it is still active I thought I would ask a couple questions.

I have a few gekko newpacs.  Have them connected to a decent powered hub and have them successfully mining on my wallet via ckpool proxy that I set up.  I have it on a spare azure ubuntu server that I have access to for the moment but would really like to be able to have the proxy over on my pi here in my home.  I have fought and fought with getting the pool to install in 3 different OS environments all linux based...finally got it running but I cannot get it to connect.  I suspect it has to do with several files being protected or restricted in the files I download.  Even after using chmod I still hit a wall.  None of that was a problem on the azure server though.  Anyway, I will stick a pin in that part.

The second part is I am having some difficulty creating my own bat file...that is the syntax is apparently wrong and I get random restarts.  I want to run this as slow as possible, I am trying to find out if there is a bare min. to keep a connection to the proxy open or from the proxy to the pool.  Maybe you all know the answer?  I am just wanting to know if there is a low limit...and if so, does anyone know what that is?  I set the thing to run at 25Mhtz with like 5000 difficulty but it still submits every few seconds to a minute.  I am just curious...if I start a proxy for myself if I have to always have something running or does it kick out if no miner is present?  That is essentially the question.  Also in regards to the syntax...this is essentially what I have right now...based on what I see in walkthroughs and documentation.  What I would like to do is know, is there a better way to connect to my proxy?  I am seeing where people are putting something other than wallet id in the -u...which makes me think there is another way...

Thanks in advance and pardon my possibly silly questions and legnth of post.
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@echo off
for /F "tokens=2-8 delims=/:. " %%i in ("%DATE%.%TIME%") do @set TS=%%k%%i%%j_%%l%%m%%n%%o
set LOGFILE=cgminer_%TS%.log
set /p log=Should we log? (y/n)
if %log%==y ( title Logging to : cgminer_%TS%.log ) else ( set LOGFILE=nul )

mode con: cols=120 lines=60
cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://52.179.xxx.xxx:3334 --suggest-diff 5000 -u 1DQKoSArFfhD6tPyDxKHtYnRKiVTMHxxx -p x --usb :1 2>%LOGFILE%

echo. & pause
title Command Prompt
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[B00gieman]

Hello to you all.

Received today my 4 BM1384.
I've got a Raspberry 4
I've got this Hub:

Code:

https://i-tec.pro/en/produkt/u3chargehub16-2/

All installed.

The problem is curious.

If i start the raspberry and login via SSH and execute the command...

Code:

cgminer -n 

It reports:

Code:

USB all: found 6 devices - listing known devices     
 [2022-03-04 19:06:39.383] No known USB devices

I only have 4 GekkoSciene + 1 connection to RPI, so 5 USB total... wtf is the six?
Another thing... it does not report nothinh like “2Pac BM1384 Bitcoin Miner”.
When i execute the command

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u mybtcaddress --gekko-2pac-freq 200

The miner reports no USB devices

The only way i figure out to put all working is edit sudo nano /etc/rc.local and put the command to start mining, and then... sudo reboot

In this way the RPI boots and the 4 USB starts mining.

Whats appenning?
Does have anything to do with usb3hubs reported problems?

Other question... The mining process starts auto on boot...how can i check what is appening?
Is there a command to check cgminer output?
If the miner starts on boot i cant get any information from it... is there any way?
thanks

[gt_addict]

B00gieman, you need to use "screen" and create a ".sh" file and name it something then get it to autorun in the rc.local directory. Once its in there you can have something like the following run.........

cd /home/pi/cgminer
screen -dmS cgminer ./cgminerSHfile.sh

Then when it reboots, just go into a new terminal window and type "sudo screen -x" and it will open up the window with cgminer running.

[B00gieman]

Thanks for you reply.

So...first i need to install screen.
After that i need to create a .sh file...what do i put inside the.sh file?
The complete line command to start mining?

And then inside rc.local i put:
cd /home/pi/cgminer
screen -dmS cgminer ./cgminerSHfile.sh
 
Is this correct?

[gt_addict]

Thanks for you reply.

So...first i need to install screen.
After that i need to create a .sh file...what do i put inside the.sh file?
The complete line command to start mining?

And then inside rc.local i put:
cd /home/pi/cgminer
screen -dmS cgminer ./cgminerSHfile.sh
 
Is this correct?

Inside the .SH file you should put....

"./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u mybtcaddress --gekko-2pac-freq 200"