Revive a Dead Antminer S2 with Beaglebone Black Rev. C (off the shelf)

[d2dtk]

Great instructions. Hopefully I will never have to use them.

[thecr4ne]

My Antminer S2 is down too, and a new SD card doesn't help either. I'm new to computers, bitcoin mining and electronics so I don't really see myself doing all of this to replace the beaglebone.

Here's my question: does anyone think a raspberry pi could take over the beaglebone's job ? If I just connected it to the control board of my S2 ?

I have BFG miner on my rasp and it says among others : drivers enabled : antminer

Many thanks for any advive !
Pierre

Sorry for not replying sooner. I doubt a RasPi will work. I haven't tried and honestly don't know how much the beaglebone is actually doing that's specific to it's hardware, and how much is just generic linux stuff.

If you've got a RPi and are willing to risk it, pop a new SD card with the image in and see what happens. It would be a cheaper replacement for sure.

As for BFG miner and it's antminer driver, I'd suspect that's more geared toward the antminer u1 and u2 USB asics. But if you try it and have any luck, it might save people some serious trouble.

[sdtrojan]

Has anyone tried the Rasberry Pi route yet?

There must be cheaper options than the Beaglebone Black Rev. C from Adafruit.com

It seems like major hardware overkill for the job..

Thanks for all the info

[vdr]

after installing the full beaglebone, did anyone try connecting keyboard, mouse, monitor?
is there room in there to do it?

[Rabinovitch]

Where is Bitmain's tech support when this thread need it so much?..

[bilabonic]

After trying various memory cards, images, the lot, ALL i done was pull out 2 cards, powered up and i could see the blue leds on near the ethernet port, inserted other 2 cards back in, entered pool details and its working...WTF !!