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February 22, 2012, 10:06:51 PM |
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I'm setting up some dedicated miners at a friends place. I want to do it without leaving a monitor there. I'm going to be using a wireless adapter for the internet. What's the best OS to do this? Does linuxcoin allow full control of settings from a remote location?
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TheHarbinger
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February 23, 2012, 04:08:49 AM |
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I'm setting up some dedicated miners at a friends place. I want to do it without leaving a monitor there. I'm going to be using a wireless adapter for the internet. What's the best OS to do this? Does linuxcoin allow full control of settings from a remote location?
As a headless miner with wireless, the best bet right now is probably a Ubuntu 11.04 install with CGminer run from a startup script. If you can get a wired connection, use BAMT with CGminer. |
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BinaryMage
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February 23, 2012, 03:06:50 PM |
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I'm setting up some dedicated miners at a friends place. I want to do it without leaving a monitor there. I'm going to be using a wireless adapter for the internet. What's the best OS to do this? Does linuxcoin allow full control of settings from a remote location?
If you have an extra wireless router, install DD-WRT and set it up as a wireless bridge with the rig connected by Ethernet. That will be a lot more stable than using a wireless adapter. |
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February 23, 2012, 03:08:56 PM |
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I'm setting up some dedicated miners at a friends place. I want to do it without leaving a monitor there. I'm going to be using a wireless adapter for the internet. What's the best OS to do this? Does linuxcoin allow full control of settings from a remote location?
If you have an extra wireless router, install DD-WRT and set it up as a wireless bridge with the rig connected by Ethernet. That will be a lot more stable than using a wireless adapter. This. Would you run a server off a wireless link? A mining rig is a server. It is on 24/7 and when it goes down you lose money. |
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TheHarbinger
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February 24, 2012, 12:38:37 AM |
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BAMT 5.0 now supports wireless setups out of the box it seems. Haven't tested it myself, yet.
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Red Emerald
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February 24, 2012, 12:40:06 AM |
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Use something linux and learn SSH. You will be glad you did.
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BinaryMage
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February 24, 2012, 12:48:23 AM |
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BAMT 5.0 now supports wireless setups out of the box it seems. Haven't tested it myself, yet.
You could get it to work with wireless before; it's just standard Debian. No matter what, though, wireless will be inherently much more unstable. |
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cuz0882 (OP)
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February 24, 2012, 12:57:35 PM |
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I'm setting up some dedicated miners at a friends place. I want to do it without leaving a monitor there. I'm going to be using a wireless adapter for the internet. What's the best OS to do this? Does linuxcoin allow full control of settings from a remote location?
If you have an extra wireless router, install DD-WRT and set it up as a wireless bridge with the rig connected by Ethernet. That will be a lot more stable than using a wireless adapter. This. Would you run a server off a wireless link? A mining rig is a server. It is on 24/7 and when it goes down you lose money. Wireless is actually pretty reliable, I don't think I've had any more trouble with it then my wired pc. Definitely not worth running ethernet cables all over the house. |
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cuz0882 (OP)
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February 24, 2012, 01:00:24 PM |
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BAMT 5.0 now supports wireless setups out of the box it seems. Haven't tested it myself, yet.
I just got it working tonight with BAMT. Do you know how to get cgminer on BAMT? Or some alternative mining software that is fast with 5970s? |
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P4man
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February 24, 2012, 03:06:32 PM |
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If you have an extra wireless router, install DD-WRT and set it up as a wireless bridge with the rig connected by Ethernet. That will be a lot more stable than using a wireless adapter.
This. Would you run a server off a wireless link? A mining rig is a server. It is on 24/7 and when it goes down you lose money. Of course there is little reason to assume a DD-WRT modded wireless bridge is any more reliable than a wireless card. Its still wireless you see  . |
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February 24, 2012, 03:15:19 PM |
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Of course there is little reason to assume a DD-WRT modded wireless bridge is any more reliable than a wireless card. Its still wireless you see . IMHO yes (marginally). I have found DD-WRT to be pretty reliable. The whole dedicated appliance vs general purpose computer concept. I have found wireless drivers to be glitchy in both windows & linux. Situations where my wife's laptop goes "down" and I get "Baby is the internet down" (then I have to bite my tongue to not make comments about nuclear war). My laptop fine, router fine, "internet" fine. Her wifi driver/hardware/OS just decided to glitch out. Plus who knows what the heat of mining rig is going to do to "relability" of the wifi radio. Personally I wouldn't run miners on anything less than cat5. Downtime = lost coins but if I had to I would pick a bridge over internal wifi. Plus if you got 2 or 3 rigs it probably is cheaper. |
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cuz0882 (OP)
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February 24, 2012, 03:39:52 PM |
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Of course there is little reason to assume a DD-WRT modded wireless bridge is any more reliable than a wireless card. Its still wireless you see . IMHO yes (marginally). I have found DD-WRT to be pretty reliable. The whole dedicated appliance vs general purpose computer concept. I have found wireless drivers to be glitchy in both windows & linux. Situations where my wife's laptop goes "down" and I get "Baby is the internet down" (then I have to bite my tongue to not make comments about nuclear war). My laptop fine, router fine, "internet" fine. Her wifi driver/hardware/OS just decided to glitch out. Plus who knows what the heat of mining rig is going to do to "relability" of the wifi radio. Personally I wouldn't run miners on anything less than cat5. Downtime = lost coins but if I had to I would pick a bridge over internal wifi. Plus if you got 2 or 3 rigs it probably is cheaper. Not all wireless is built equal, a nice router makes a big difference. I don't think it makes any performance difference if they all get a good signal. I have 8 miners at my house with only 2 on cat5 and I've never noticed anything. The wireless cards are only 13-15 bucks each. It would actually cost more for cat5 and another hub to hook them up. |
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BinaryMage
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February 24, 2012, 04:08:38 PM |
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Of course there is little reason to assume a DD-WRT modded wireless bridge is any more reliable than a wireless card. Its still wireless you see . IMHO yes (marginally). I have found DD-WRT to be pretty reliable. The whole dedicated appliance vs general purpose computer concept. I have found wireless drivers to be glitchy in both windows & linux. Situations where my wife's laptop goes "down" and I get "Baby is the internet down" (then I have to bite my tongue to not make comments about nuclear war). My laptop fine, router fine, "internet" fine. Her wifi driver/hardware/OS just decided to glitch out. Plus who knows what the heat of mining rig is going to do to "relability" of the wifi radio. Personally I wouldn't run miners on anything less than cat5. Downtime = lost coins but if I had to I would pick a bridge over internal wifi. Plus if you got 2 or 3 rigs it probably is cheaper. I have had the same experience. One of my miners runs off a DD-WRT wireless bridge; the bridge itself has been stable for over a month. Running off a wifi dongle was stable 24 hours at best. |
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cuz0882 (OP)
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February 25, 2012, 01:28:46 AM |
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It's probably just a signal issue. I've had them go months without issues and when they do crash its not the wireless. You don't want to be using a cheap brand like belkin. You need a 150 dollar cisco or netgear router.
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BinaryMage
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February 25, 2012, 01:34:37 AM |
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It's probably just a signal issue. I've had them go months without issues and when they do crash its not the wireless. You don't want to be using a cheap brand like belkin. You need a 150 dollar cisco or netgear router.
I use an old $30 Belkin G router as a wireless bridge and it works perfectly. |
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TheHarbinger
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February 25, 2012, 09:58:03 PM |
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BAMT 5.0 now supports wireless setups out of the box it seems. Haven't tested it myself, yet.
I just got it working tonight with BAMT. Do you know how to get cgminer on BAMT? Or some alternative mining software that is fast with 5970s? I haven't been able to get cgminer to load at startup on BAMT 0.5 personally. Not sure why. So I'm sticking with 0.4 for a while until I figure it out. But if you look in /opt/bamt/examples/ there will be another bamt.conf file that will show you what to change to use cgminer. |
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Red Emerald
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February 26, 2012, 05:46:35 PM |
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I haven't been able to get cgminer to load at startup on BAMT 0.5 personally. Not sure why. So I'm sticking with 0.4 for a while until I figure it out. But if you look in /opt/bamt/examples/ there will be another bamt.conf file that will show you what to change to use cgminer.
Thanks. I just got another card and am playing with 0.5. I'll look in /opt/bamt/examples for some help. |
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fabrizziop
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March 06, 2012, 03:12:35 PM |
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I used windows 7, with teamviewer. Works beautifully good for a headless rig, and I can control it fully from anywhere.
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