BAMT version 0.5 - Easy USB based mining Linux with farm wide management tools

[lodcrappo]

I've been trying to get BAMT working for the past couple of hours without success. About a year and a half ago I had set up my own mining farm and scripts to generate webpages. Now I'm moving some miners to a new location and figured that BAMT should be the easy way to go. Wrong! Someone please point out the obvious as I'm pulling my hair out.

First and foremost, no matter what I do I cannot get BAMT to think my two 5830's are configured. I've tried disabled=0 of course, and fiddled with the overclock settings, and tried pre_oc_cmd. Pools are set up exactly as they ought to be for Phoenix in /etc/bamt/pools. I've tweaked things here and there but:

• Cards display on the desktop as not configured (mother -v does not change this)
• Cards do not overclock as set
• pre_oc_cmd does not run
• Fan speed does not change to 100%
• Cards do not mine
• Various status pages (web/gpumon/etc) show nothing

I've checked the /live/image/BAMT/CONTROL/ACTIVE/ directory; it is empty.

After doing this for a while I decided to test the remote capabilities. When I log in via SSH and try various aticonfig commands, I get:

Code:

ERROR - X needs to be running to perform ATI Overdrive(TM) commands

startx:

Code:

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0

Edit: Solved aticonfig errors both with export DISPLAY=:0.

GAH! And regardless, it still won't mine.

Again, someone PLEASE tell me I'm missing something obvious here. Been reading through the full /opt/bamt/examples/bamt.conf ... no clue. At this point I'm feeling that I could have installed Ubuntu and drivers from scratch and still been ahead time-wise.

BAMT will not work out for everyone.  My advice is to spend no more than 15 minutes screwing around with it, and if you're not mining, move on to something else.
If you'd really like to try and make it work, please post your config to pastebin or somewhere.

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[lodcrappo]

I have never tried my network without a passwd and i dont want to! The thing is, i have seen a solution to this problem somewhere else but i cant find it now!

check the box next to 'save this password for all users' or some similar thing.

[lodcrappo]

Please pastebin your bamt.conf

Before I dump the whole thing... other than enabling the two GPUs that need to mine and editing pools is there anything else that is necessary to get started?

Nothing else is required.  This is why we are asking you to post the config so we can see if you are doing this part correctly.

[Joshwaa]

Any date for when BAMT .6 will be out?  The release I tried did not work for me. Also next meeting?

[ewibit]

Any date for when BAMT .6 will be out?  The release I tried did not work for me. Also next meeting?

there seems to be somewhere a BAMT 0.6 beta - but dunno where...

[Joshwaa]

Yea I got that one but it would not work on my rigs.

[mc_lovin]

Yea I got that one but it would not work on my rigs.

where can I get a copy of the bamt 0.6 beta just to tinker with it?

[Joshwaa]

I have the link. I will ask Lod if I can Post it.

[lodcrappo]

I have the link. I will ask Lod if I can Post it.

you can share it all you want, but i can not support it and anything may change before a supported version comes out. actually several things have changed already.  it does come with a money back guarantee though.  unless anyone actually donates anything for it.  then it doesn't.

[Joshwaa]

http://www.btcmu.info/b06_test02.img

[mc_lovin]

http://www.btcmu.info/b06_test02.img

Sweet!  Downloading it now.

[poon-TANG]

BAMT wesite down?

[ninjaboon]

http://www.btcmu.info/b06_test02.img

Sweet!  Downloading it now.

will try it also. hope it cannot solve the network connection problem on my current Asus mobo.

[abracadabra]

http://www.btcmu.info/b06_test02.img

Sweet!  Downloading it now.

will try it also. hope it cannot solve the network connection problem on my current Asus mobo.

if you don't need wireless wifi, remove network-manager

[chewie]

Any plans on getting BAMT updated for future use with BFL SCs or any of the other ASICs miners?

[BitMinerN8]

Any plans on getting BAMT updated for future use with BFL SCs or any of the other ASICs miners?

You can add it via cgminer, I have several rigs with both gpu/bfl on bamt, but I doubt there will ever be a fully integrated version like with the graphs/stats. Some notes below on how to update/install. Caution though. You might want to install a fresh bamt build and don't install fix #20 or it will fubar a current build of cgminer, something about "mother" not talking to it correctly after some revision changes or something like that.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.msg873655#msg873655

[abracadabra]

Any plans on getting BAMT updated for future use with BFL SCs or any of the other ASICs miners?

You can add it via cgminer, I have several rigs with both gpu/bfl on bamt, but I doubt there will ever be a fully integrated version like with the graphs/stats. Some notes below on how to update/install. Caution though. You might want to install a fresh bamt build and don't install fix #20 or it will fubar a current build of cgminer, something about "mother" not talking to it correctly after some revision changes or something like that.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.msg873655#msg873655

I'd suggest these instructions:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127622.0

[BitMinerN8]

Any plans on getting BAMT updated for future use with BFL SCs or any of the other ASICs miners?

You can add it via cgminer, I have several rigs with both gpu/bfl on bamt, but I doubt there will ever be a fully integrated version like with the graphs/stats. Some notes below on how to update/install. Caution though. You might want to install a fresh bamt build and don't install fix #20 or it will fubar a current build of cgminer, something about "mother" not talking to it correctly after some revision changes or something like that.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.msg873655#msg873655

I'd suggest these instructions:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127622.0

That's a nice guide, thanks.

[tossil]

Any news or development on BAMT 0.6?

[Joshwaa]

My guess is we are not going to see it.  It's been almost a year with nothing.