CGminer v3.8.5 on Broadcom based DD-WRT / OpenWRT

[P_Shep]

Upped to 2.7.6:

https://github.com/downloads/pshep/cgminer/cgminer-2.7.6-mipsel.tar.gz

[TCPC]

This is a great idea.  Thanks for working on this!

[P_Shep]

Upped to 2.8.1

https://github.com/downloads/pshep/cgminer/cgminer-2.8.1-mipsel.tar.gz

[Mobius]

coolness and a little something something

[P_Shep]

Why thank you very much indeed

[dlasher]

P_Shep, thanks for doing this!

What are you doing for a compile env? are you actually compiling on your openWRT box, or did you build an Env on a i386/x64 machine? If the later, any links/guidance to doing the same?

[P_Shep]

P_Shep, thanks for doing this!

What are you doing for a compile env? are you actually compiling on your openWRT box, or did you build an Env on a i386/x64 machine? If the later, any links/guidance to doing the same?

Cross-compiling. Links to dev env is at the bottom of the readme.

[dlasher]

Thanks, will read up.. Managed to brick a wrt610n trying to get openWRT running.. time for jtag.

[P_Shep]

Upped to 2.8.3

https://github.com/downloads/pshep/cgminer/cgminer-2.8.3-mipsel.tar.gz

[Valle]

I see strange hashrate on pools after update to this version. I have 2 BFL single, so usually I have ~1650 mh/s, but with this update btc guild says my average speed is only ~1200 mh/s, so I switched to slush's pool. Here I still have adequate payout (about 0.5 btc/day) but reported average hashrate is only 1066 mh/s. I suspect it's because of some side effect of stratum protocol. Do you know why it is so?

(cgminer reports normal hashrate for slush, but reduced hashrate for btc guild :-/ That's odd.)

Upped to 2.8.3

https://github.com/downloads/pshep/cgminer/cgminer-2.8.3-mipsel.tar.gz

[P_Shep]

Tried it on a regular PC? Maybe you'll see the same thing?

[cypherdoc]

can someone explain what the setup is?  i don't understand why you'd want to run cgminer on a router.  you're not trying to mine with the router's proc right?..

no, you mine on the FPGA attached to the router via USB, attached to the router instead of a pc because a router uses very little electricity

i'm new to this concept so forgive me. 

but you use the pc to monitor the routers results right?  how much more electricity does the pc use over the router? 

[Mobius]

can someone explain what the setup is?  i don't understand why you'd want to run cgminer on a router.  you're not trying to mine with the router's proc right?..

no, you mine on the FPGA attached to the router via USB, attached to the router instead of a pc because a router uses very little electricity

i'm new to this concept so forgive me. 

but you use the pc to monitor the routers results right?  how much more electricity does the pc use over the router? 

You can when you want to.
ASUS RT-16 uses a max of 8watts vs a pc starting at 200 watts

[Valle]

Tried it on a regular PC? Maybe you'll see the same thing?

Now it shows usual average speed at slush. I don't know what is was, I guess a temporary glitch.

[Valle]

can someone explain what the setup is?  i don't understand why you'd want to run cgminer on a router.  you're not trying to mine with the router's proc right?..

no, you mine on the FPGA attached to the router via USB, attached to the router instead of a pc because a router uses very little electricity

i'm new to this concept so forgive me. 

but you use the pc to monitor the routers results right?  how much more electricity does the pc use over the router? 

I see results on mine pool :-) sometimes I monitor it using cgminer api. So router acts as an usual pc and it runs cgminer. I put this router and 2 bfls to an usual middletower so it looks nice and almost wireless (it's only powercord outside) :-)

I'm not sure how much power it takes, probably ~10 Wt for the router and 160 for bfls all these powered by bronse-rated psu.

[btharper]

Can anyone recommend hardware for a similar setup for this? I don't necessarily need something with wifi or anything fancy. Just ethernet in one end and USB on the other that reboots quickly after power outage, doesn't require much maintenance after being setup, and preferably something nice enough to run a small webserver on it.

[Valle]

Can anyone recommend hardware for a similar setup for this? I don't necessarily need something with wifi or anything fancy. Just ethernet in one end and USB on the other that reboots quickly after power outage, doesn't require much maintenance after being setup, and preferably something nice enough to run a small webserver on it.

I use e3000 - it is fancy but it's the recommended way. However it may break on power loss - I experienced optware's system file partition crash on force switch off.

[btharper]

Can anyone recommend hardware for a similar setup for this? I don't necessarily need something with wifi or anything fancy. Just ethernet in one end and USB on the other that reboots quickly after power outage, doesn't require much maintenance after being setup, and preferably something nice enough to run a small webserver on it.

I use e3000 - it is fancy but it's the recommended way. However it may break on power loss - I experienced optware's system file partition crash on force switch off.

The shell at least looks nice, and for an $80 router I'd hope. I've actually started looking more into raspberry pi, they're cheap ($35 for the relevant version with networking) and can hold two devices without even worrying about a hub. And just a decent looking small linux base. Does anyone have any good or bad experience trying to use a raspberry pi for mining controller?

[P_Shep]

The shell at least looks nice, and for an $80 router I'd hope. I've actually started looking more into raspberry pi, they're cheap ($35 for the relevant version with networking) and can hold two devices without even worrying about a hub. And just a decent looking small linux base. Does anyone have any good or bad experience trying to use a raspberry pi for mining controller?

There are dd-wrt compatible routers which don't have wi-fi, which you could use.
R-pi can also be used, some have, but that's another thread...

You can also pick up a refurbished e3000 for $50 ish from Newegg.

[BR0KK]

tried the pi but somehow thats not a sufficient miner base .....

keeps on failing