ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[gt_addict]

What are the chances of an old S3 running cgminer 3.somethjng getting bricked if I update it to kanos version? Also if the IP address has been changed etc does the miner keep the same IP or does it revert back to the factory one?

[toptek]

What are the chances of an old S3 running cgminer 3.somethjng getting bricked if I update it to kanos version? Also if the IP address has been changed etc does the miner keep the same IP or does it revert back to the factory one?

if you don't uncheck save your setting in the UI  all setting are saved or stay the same, but as with anything done over SSH, there is all ways that 1 to 3 %, if that can happen, nothing is a 100 % . There is all most no way you can brick it with kanos update , his update makes any S3 that is not broke to start with run better. not faster but better , it really doesn't change the firmware just CGminer with all the nice fixes for S3 's.

Don't expect faster, it will run smother with less issue etc if there is nothing wrong with the S3 .

[gt_addict]

Where is that check box toptek? Just so I can make sure that it's ticked before I do the update.

Also I assume from the instructions above that I don't need to download anything and save it to my laptop, the "wget" line means it will download it?

Would putty be OK to use to do this update?

[toptek]

Where is that check box toptek? Just so I can make sure that it's ticked before I do the update.

Also I assume from the instructions above that I don't need to download anything and save it to my laptop, the "wget" line means it will download it?

Would putty be OK to use to do this update?

if you do kanos update over SSH  you can't uncheck it . . it's in miner UI when ever you do a upgrade of the frimware you uncheck it for defaults to load on firmware update or leave it alone to keep your setting . you can also save all your setting to file in the same place in the UI encase there might be a issue but doing it over SSH unless you edit it off in one of the files with SSH, it won't turn off .


GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

Putty is what i use there are others . but putty is what i started with so I'll sty with it for now .i have tried a few others , but for me putty seems to be the most user friendly,.

and I change it to code in my post, so it can be downloaded to the S3 and not as a link .

[gt_addict]

Ok I'm confused. So you are saying that the tick box is not accessible over ssh? I can access the miner to view stats etc through the usual root-root web interface. Surely it's in there?

[gt_addict]

Ignore my last post. I re-read what toptek had put and realised my mistake. I am now running Kanos update on my old S3 and so far so good. Looks better and has the option to change the asic freq like my S3+ which is handy 

[underachieved]

2 days with no progress. 

[notlist3d]

2 days with no progress. 

Where did you get the S3 I might have missed it.  Is it new to you?  Or did a network change cause it?

Just trying to see if machine is new to you, or if it was a problem you had after it working.

[underachieved]

New to me. Ebay purchase.

[notlist3d]

New to me. Ebay purchase.

Ok send message to seller and ask what he did to connect to it.  Ask what former IP was, if it worked for him.  If he ever has experienced this.

He is really the first person you should go to, as it's hard to really say remotely what is going on as far as what it was set to.   

[aarons6]

I have the S3 connect to a router as of now. I have tried both the router and a direct connection to my laptop.

I was typing the ip (192.168.1.99) in IE. The cgi-bin/luci screen comes up but ends up timing out and saying bad gateway.

I cannot believe accessing the webGUI is so difficult.

BTW.. I did install winSCP.

one thing you need to check is to make sure your network is on 192.168.1.x

the new comcast xfinity wifi routers are set to 10.0.0.1 as default..

also you network could be 192.168.0.x

these will cause the bad gateway error.

[pinhead666]

Same questions asked over and over again. Reset controller. Give your computer static ip (192.168.1.100), subnet mask 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.1.99, dns doesn\t matter. Connect miner straight to the computer or via switch, surf to page 192.168.1.99, turn miner on dhcp. Save settings, turn computer back on dhcp, find right ip from modems status page. Surf to that ip. Done.
If you can\t reset your controller, unbrick it with cp2102 adapter, instructions are here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1335865.0

[notlist3d]

Same questions asked over and over again. Reset controller. Give your computer static ip (192.168.1.100), subnet mask 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.1.99, dns doesn\t matter. Connect miner straight to the computer or via switch, surf to page 192.168.1.99, turn miner on dhcp. Save settings, turn computer back on dhcp, find right ip from modems status page. Surf to that ip. Done.
If you can\t reset your controller, unbrick it with cp2102 adapter, instructions are here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1335865.0

This is why when I sell miners I include the IP. Been a while since I sold one but it makes it so much easier on buyer if they don't know much on networking.

I still think he should contact seller, and it chances are would be easy to get IP from him.   After that would be a simple matter setting up a static IP like you mention.   And he likely could try it now with 192.168.1.100 or 192.168.0.100 and hitting it from there.  But if he asks seller would be no guess work. 

Reset should do the trick if he follows it.  I'm thinking one firmware did have where reset did not work so slim chance, but he could be on that firmware.

[gt_addict]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

[aarons6]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

[kano]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

You can't mine multiple coins.
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/README#L915

[zOU]

hello,

is there a 3rd party tool that can provide graph of the S3/S3+ behavior ? (i've not found any in my search)

i can see what my S3's are doing from CKpool monitor page, but as hashrate seems to fluctuate a lot, I'd like to see it locally.

I'm using cryptoglance (but it only provides numbers) as M's miner monitor and Minera can do for network miners.
For the 3 above, there's no history, just real time.

I'm really interested to see how hashrate and share submission evolve over time.

[gt_addict]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

I'm on bitminter at the moment and doing alright but don't want to have all my eggs in one basket. So was going to balance the two S3s I've got between Kano.is and bitminter.

I know bitminter does nmc aswell as a by product but would that affect the errors if I was to balance between the two pools?

[aarons6]

Has anyone used the balance option in the miner configuration menu? If so how have you found it on the pool side?

depends on the pool. i did for awhile and some pools work great, kano and cksolo.. some not so great.. it has something to do if the pool mines alt coins..
you get a TON of stale and invalid shares..

I'm on bitminter at the moment and doing alright but don't want to have all my eggs in one basket. So was going to balance the two S3s I've got between Kano.is and bitminter.

I know bitminter does nmc aswell as a by product but would that affect the errors if I was to balance between the two pools?

if you have 2 s3s.. it would be logical to aim one to kano, and one to bitminter.. then make the failover the opposite..

no need to balance anything.

[gt_addict]

That is a very good point