ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[PantminerS7]

No ethernet port in my room. I don't fret much about running the laptop full-time, as it more or less already does that. I just can't get the Antminer to work that way.

The network uses a different submask than the router, so I have to connect through an ethernet cable laptop-miner to get into the config.

When I try to configure the Antminer to use DHCP, it disconnects me and doesn't commit the change, so I never actually get to share internet to it (WAN->Set protocol to DHCP Client -> Change Protocol -> Save and Apply). The wireless option on the antminer shows nothing, the nearest connection point being a few metres away.

If I had control of the router, I'd have this up and running, but when faced with stuff like this, I'm clueless.

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[notlist3d]

No ethernet port in my room. I don't fret much about running the laptop full-time, as it more or less already does that. I just can't get the Antminer to work that way.

The network uses a different submask than the router, so I have to connect through an ethernet cable laptop-miner to get into the config.

When I try to configure the Antminer to use DHCP, it disconnects me and doesn't commit the change, so I never actually get to share internet to it (WAN->Set protocol to DHCP Client -> Change Protocol -> Save and Apply). The wireless option on the antminer shows nothing, the nearest connection point being a few metres away.

If I had control of the router, I'd have this up and running, but when faced with stuff like this, I'm clueless.

The wireless option shows nothing likely due to it not having an antenna.  So it does not pick up wireless unless like right next to and very high signal.   It was meant for ethernet connection.

I would guess when you first connected you have to agree to a TOS, or sign in? Is that correct if so I think easiest option is a wireless adapter to ethernet.  You likely will need to connect once though it with laptop to agree to terms/log-on.  And it might not work all depends on your wireless setup. And that is assuming they don't block anythhing needed for it to work.

[PantminerS7]

That's right. There's also a no-security guest connection with np ToS.

Edit instead of bump: Tried opening the case and adding a bit of metal wire to the antennae-slot. Seem to have gotten the machine online with wifi now.
It's now hashing away at a pool. I probably should get a real antennae rather than this metal wire, right?

Also, should I configure all 3 worker slots on the antminer? It's only for swapping to another worker/pool if prio 0 goes down, right?

[in2tactics]

That's right. There's also a no-security guest connection with np ToS.

Edit instead of bump: Tried opening the case and adding a bit of metal wire to the antennae-slot. Seem to have gotten the machine online with wifi now.
It's now hashing away at a pool. I probably should get a real antennae rather than this metal wire, right?

Also, should I configure all 3 worker slots on the antminer? It's only for swapping to another worker/pool if prio 0 goes down, right?

You always want a backup pool. No sense in sitting idle if your primary pool goes down.

[PantminerS7]

Thanks for the help notlist3d and in2tactics. Machine is hashing away now by wifi with antennae.

[Real-Duke]

Also, should I configure all 3 worker slots on the antminer? It's only for swapping to another worker/pool if prio 0 goes down, right?

Yes best option is to use all 3 worker tabs if your first pool goes down for some reason

[notlist3d]

Thanks for the help notlist3d and in2tactics. Machine is hashing away now by wifi with antennae.

Not a problem! Glad you got it working with wifi on the S3/S3+ that antenna will make a world of difference .  Best of luck mining.

[DigitalCreep]

Hello

What is quota based balance in miner config on a S3+?

Thanks

[d57heinz]

Hello

What is quota based balance in miner config on a S3+?

Thanks

This is an excerpt from cgminer help.  Scroll down to near bottom to find this.  Id say turn on the quota and test it with putting 1,2,3,4...etc followed by the ; then your pool data.  Idk how this works and bitmain uses a hacked up version of cgminer that CK will not help you with.  I hope this works ive never tested it.

QUOTAS

The load-balance multipool strategy works off a quota based scheduler. The
quotas handed out by default are equal, but the user is allowed to specify any
arbitrary ratio of quotas. For example, if all the quota values add up to 100,
each quota value will be a percentage, but if 2 pools are specified and pool0
is given a quota of 1 and pool1 is given a quota of 9, pool0 will get 10% of
the work and pool1 will get 90%. Quotas can be changed on the fly by the API,
and do not act retrospectively. Setting a quota to zero will effectively
disable that pool unless all other pools are disabled or dead. In that
scenario, load-balance falls back to regular failover priority-based strategy.
While a pool is dead, it loses its quota and no attempt is made to catch up
when it comes back to life.

To specify quotas on the command line, pools should be specified with a
semicolon separated --quota(or -U) entry instead of --url. Pools specified with
--url are given a nominal quota value of 1 and entries can be mixed.

For example:
--url poola:porta -u usernamea -p passa --quota "2;poolb:portb" -u usernameb -p passb
Will give poola 1/3 of the work and poolb 2/3 of the work.

Writing configuration files with quotas is likewise supported. To use the above
quotas in a configuration file they would be specified thus:

"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "poola:porta",
                "user" : "usernamea",
                "pass" : "passa"
        },
        {
                "quota" : "2;poolb:portb",
                "user" : "usernameb",
                "pass" : "passb"
        }
]

https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer

Hope that steers ya in the right direction.  

Best Regards
d57heinz

[DigitalCreep]

Hello

What is quota based balance in miner config on a S3+?

Thanks

This is an excerpt from cgminer help.  Scroll down to near bottom to find this.  Id say turn on the quota and test it with putting 1,2,3,4...etc followed by the ; then your pool data.  Idk how this works and bitmain uses a hacked up version of cgminer that CK will not help you with.  I hope this works ive never tested it.

QUOTAS

The load-balance multipool strategy works off a quota based scheduler. The
quotas handed out by default are equal, but the user is allowed to specify any
arbitrary ratio of quotas. For example, if all the quota values add up to 100,
each quota value will be a percentage, but if 2 pools are specified and pool0
is given a quota of 1 and pool1 is given a quota of 9, pool0 will get 10% of
the work and pool1 will get 90%. Quotas can be changed on the fly by the API,
and do not act retrospectively. Setting a quota to zero will effectively
disable that pool unless all other pools are disabled or dead. In that
scenario, load-balance falls back to regular failover priority-based strategy.
While a pool is dead, it loses its quota and no attempt is made to catch up
when it comes back to life.

To specify quotas on the command line, pools should be specified with a
semicolon separated --quota(or -U) entry instead of --url. Pools specified with
--url are given a nominal quota value of 1 and entries can be mixed.

For example:
--url poola:porta -u usernamea -p passa --quota "2;poolb:portb" -u usernameb -p passb
Will give poola 1/3 of the work and poolb 2/3 of the work.

Writing configuration files with quotas is likewise supported. To use the above
quotas in a configuration file they would be specified thus:

"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "poola:porta",
                "user" : "usernamea",
                "pass" : "passa"
        },
        {
                "quota" : "2;poolb:portb",
                "user" : "usernameb",
                "pass" : "passb"
        }
]

https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer

Hope that steers ya in the right direction.  

Best Regards
d57heinz

Thanks for the info!

[Jayjay04]

Hi all,

I have an S3+ that looks kinda stuck on startup. (Lan green light is on, and the red led flashing nonstop)

I found some instructions on the web saying I could connect to the S3 with a serial module and debug it....

I got myself a CP2102 usb 2.0 to uart module serial converter and I install putty... but the thing is that I dont know anything about the both of it....

Is there someone that could help me try to revive my S3... (Taugeran's revival guide is lacking a lot of vital information for a newbie like me....)

Anyone from bitmain could help ?!?!?! (contacted the support, but all they said it's send back the controller)

Thanks all, this would be very much appreciated !!!

[notlist3d]

Hi all,

I have an S3+ that looks kinda stuck on startup. (Lan green light is on, and the red led flashing nonstop)

I found some instructions on the web saying I could connect to the S3 with a serial module and debug it....

I got myself a CP2102 usb 2.0 to uart module serial converter and I install putty... but the thing is that I dont know anything about the both of it....

Is there someone that could help me try to revive my S3... (Taugeran's revival guide is lacking a lot of vital information for a newbie like me....)

Anyone from bitmain could help ?!?!?! (contacted the support, but all they said it's send back the controller)

Thanks all, this would be very much appreciated !!!

Assuming your are in US and having trouble doing this I would take a look at BitmainWarranty.   You can contact them on the forum or via website - https://bitmainwarranty.com/ .   But assuming S3 board works fine and just a bad flash you should be able to send in and get it reflashed. 

I would think at least  I have not checked on this specific procedure with them.  But hit them up and I think you will have good results.

[d57heinz]

Hi all,

I have an S3+ that looks kinda stuck on startup. (Lan green light is on, and the red led flashing nonstop)

I found some instructions on the web saying I could connect to the S3 with a serial module and debug it....

I got myself a CP2102 usb 2.0 to uart module serial converter and I install putty... but the thing is that I dont know anything about the both of it....

Is there someone that could help me try to revive my S3... (Taugeran's revival guide is lacking a lot of vital information for a newbie like me....)

Anyone from bitmain could help ?!?!?! (contacted the support, but all they said it's send back the controller)

Thanks all, this would be very much appreciated !!!

-edited for clarity-
Everything you need is right here in this post...no guesswork involved just RTFM  

I circled the 3 pins where you connect to in red here:

Looking at the controller board straight on, the ground *should* be the pinhole on the far right, if not its far left (double check with voltmeter as I have no unit to test right now) the other 2 pinholes are tx/rx.
Once you confirm  the ground (0v on voltmeter), then connect tx and rx....if you get a load of junk on your screen reverse the rx/tx and you will see magic...well not really but you will see the data on the screen...for putty set 115200, no flow control, and make sure you have the correct COM port defined (115200,8,n,1)

I posted a direct link where to get the cp2102 earlier (the tx thing)

http://www.dx.com/p/usb-to-uart-5-pin-cp2102-module-serial-converter-81872#.VI6YldJ0yUl
There is no bs ad commission or anything for that part; you can order it anywhere on the net..I provided the link where I got mine to make things easy (or so I thought)

In Short...you need the thing in the picture (link provided) putty for serial connection and 3 bogo pins (that's what the gold pins are called)
Alternately you can just use sewing pins and push the sharp end into the connector MacGyver style, just don't move anything once you have them connected  

Once you have access to the miner, type

mtd -r erase rootfs_data and hit enter
then type REBOOT and hit enter...then wait 3 minutes before accessing the default miner IP address...do not power cycle the unit

Last of all...don't hold me responsible if anything goes wrong...but if I helped, a thanks would be great  

Try this guide.,  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=889206.msg9857159#msg9857159  edited: pasted wrong link

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=889206.msg9901494#msg9901494

Sure fire fix assuming hardware is ok and uboot intact is uboot based recovery, interrupt the boot process and set your computers IP to a static IP of 192.168.1.100. Start a TFTP server on your computer serving antMiner_S320141013.bin and run the following commands on your miner.

Code:

tftpboot 0x80000000 antMiner_S320141013.bin
erase 0x9f020000 +0x7c0000
cp.b 0x80000000 0x9f020000 0x7c0000
bootm 0x9f020000

Just put the firmware bin file into the root directory on a tftp server running on 192.168.1.100 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and execute the above commands from uboot to flash it.

Thanks for the output, I'll browse through and see if I can spot a light at the end of the tunnell.

By the way, I meant the command altogether, i.e:

run mtd -r erase rootfs_data

This won't work from uboot so don't bother trying it if thats as far as you can get.

Best Regards
d57heinz

[Jayjay04]

Ok...
In resumé, once the pins are in place.
I go to SERIAL under connection in PUTTY, I enter this (115200, no flow control, correct COM port defined (115200,8,n,1))
and then click OPEN.
But the only thing that happen is a "ding" and nothing else.... what's my problem ?!?!?

How can I know if my CP2012 module driver's are well installed ?
How can I test it to know if it's not the module the problem ?

[Jayjay04]

Shit got it !! (I used session instead with host name COM_)

But i'm stuck there... cannot type anything !!!!!

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Apr 11 2013 - 01:45:00)

U-boot for ELink, build by huangfc(QQ:343669866)

Taobao:http://huangfc.taobao.com

model:ELink M150
DRAM:  64 MB
led turning on for 1s...
id read 0x100000ff
flash size 8388608, sector count = 128
Flash:  8 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ag7240_enet_initialize...
: cfg1 0x5 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:ff:ff:ff

[d57heinz]

Sorry im not real familiar with this method.. I think you need to somehow interrupt the connection when its about to output that data you presented.(possibly by pressing control c or esc maybe idk) Ill do some digging for you and see what i can come up with.  I found that with a couple quick google searches. I had some brick on me a long time ago.. ended up never getting back to them.> i may pull one out just to see about this procedure for my own knowledge if nothing else.  Ill get a usb to cp2102 adapter ordered and see what i can come up with.  give me something to work on in my free time next week.  Let me know if you discovered anything new in the meantime.

Best Regards
d57heinz

[Nite]

seems these S3+ minors still have life left in them thanks to the bitcoin price raise, making around $25 a month now.

[Jayjay04]

damn... just can't get to type anything...
I've tried with Termite also, but the typing does't do shit...

The command line that should follow is this:
" athrs26_reg_init_lan"

Does that mean its ethernet drivers (atheros) are corrupted if the line is not launching ?!?

By the way THX d57heinz!

[PantminerS7]

damn... just can't get to type anything...
I've tried with Termite also, but the typing does't do shit...

The command line that should follow is this:
" athrs26_reg_init_lan"

Does that mean its ethernet drivers (atheros) are corrupted if the line is not launching ?!?

By the way THX d57heinz!

Is this like Putty? Try pressing 'i' for insert or 'esc' to see if you can type any command after 'esc'.

[algomaspur]

    I'm pretty upset and frazzled, I received a bitmain antminer s3 for my son and I to work on together as a hobby he is 9, and I recieved it today.  I was really excited and thought the installation would be straightforward but no it was anything but that.  I had it hooked up to my router and I could not find it after following the intructions so I hooked it up straight to my computer typed in the default ip address and walla there it was I followed the intructions and went into the client using root root then I changed the network settings form static to dhcp that when everything went wrong I hooked it back up to my router and was not able to find it so I hooked it up once again and ran the ip scan to find out what the new ip address was two items came up my router and shenzen something technology.  I typed that ip number into my address search bar and nothing came up.  I am lost now please help.