Topic: [Announcement] Avalon ASIC Batch #1 Ships - page 53. (Read 238907 times)

I wonder if a manual is going to come with this thing.  This seems like its going to be a small pain in the butt without a usb port.  Whoever buys this will have to have at least a small knowledge of networking because either

A) It will come with a static address so you can plug in directly to it and telnet/ssh in to change the it to the appropriate address so you can use it normally

B) it will pick up a dhcp address and you will have to log into your router and figure out the address based on that.

Then there is the issue of actually configuring it to work with software remotely . . .  If you misconfigure something and block yourself from the box, how do you reset it to get back in?

I have a feeling that even if you got this device tomorrow, you still won't be able to use it for a while.  Maybe I'm wrong and they already have it working with a miner.  While I bought into BFL I'm honestly not hating or trolling.  I'd like to see this thing actually work.  Perhaps this is why there isn't any video yet.

It's a box of fans. I can tell from the fans, having seeing a lot of boxes of fans in my time.

It just a box of fans man, nothing you would know about. 

You could certainly fit a Nexus 7 on the front.  I mean, the thing is the size of a Minirig SC.  Heh... a BFL single with power brick at the same GH/s is smaller than the PSU of the Avalon.  Comedy gold.  

But I digress... with regards to buying out all the supplies of capacitors/resistors/etc... it's entirely possible.  BFL ran into the same problem.  It's not the fact that there are no resistors/capacitors/other parts available - there are.  There just aren't those parts in the foot print and profile the board is designed for.  So a 2mm cap may not be available, while a 2.5mm one is, but it won't fit on your board.  It's something we've very carefully worked out on our ASIC boards so that we don't run into supply issues again.  Most of the parts that could potentially run into those issues have been designed with a footprint area that can be exchanged for different parts if need be.  Our power and USB pads are an example of this.. they were designed in such a way so that we could swap out power, USB or something else entirely if we need to and not be constrained by the components around it in terms of footprint.

Although, with a limited run of 300 units, running a supplier out of parts seems pretty crazy, I will admit.  Unless there's like 1500 parts per unit.  Given the size, it's quite possible, but without seeing what's inside, who's to say?  

It is supposed to run linux.. and when you run linux anything is possible with free tools or if you have time to create your own.

I haven't done any actual investigation on how this unit is supposed to work, or even thought about it until now.  Is this thing running its own operating system like linux, and you have to telnet/ssh into it?  How do you even know what ip address it picked up if its running dhcp?  Maybe they will all come with a static address and you have to connect directly with a pc through ethernet?

If it isn't running linux, and it is just acting as a dumb box that you control via a pc over ethernet, then how will the software you are using on your pc communicate with it?

Does anyone actually know how this thing is supposed to work?

Yeah here:

It's hard to tell if it's an RJ45 or a USB-B port without seeing a better image. It does look a little big and rectangular for a USB power though.

Like in the spec. right?

Great, when could I order one?

If only an antenna you have some issues you need to overcome.
IP address (dhcp or static)
wireless sid
default username/passwd to get into a root shell
or default username/passwd to get into web interface

If a static IP and a static wireless sid.. man you will have to jump through some hoops to get in.
If it is using dhcp.. how does it know the sid? how does it know the encryption passwd for the wifi network?
ugh.

There has to be an ethernet port. It is the only sane way to start using it. Static default IP. Use a laptop to
connect to it and change the IP address to your lan or turn on dhcp....

so yea.. the little small cut in the middle botton is the right size for ethernet.

I could be wrong, but I see an Ethernet and a 2.4 GHz antenna on the back.

Well, I'm not quite sure why my question about you being in China or the USA got ignored.
Maybe you've said elsewhere that you flew to China and I missed that, but I thought that was pretty relevant if I hadn't missed some comment from you saying when you had gone to China in the past - since I clearly got the impression you were indeed in New York at least in the past - but that impression may have been also completely incorrect.

Anyway, your posts have changed 3 things you have said or shown recently, that is making me wonder about all this:

1) You said you had already shipped 2 not 1.
 1 to jgarzik and 1 to someone on the bitcoin foundation - you've now said that is false.
2) The box is obviously different to the one you showed before and was on the site
 I was wondering where the PSU was on the one on the site but assumed for some weird reason some fool had put it on the hidden front - or the fans were supposed to be the front ...
3) You said you wouldn't take pre-orders for Batch #2 until the device had been demonstrated
 Maybe you're just getting ready for that to eventuate?

(and of course the old one prior to today ... 4) you said you'd demonstrate the device long ago)

Yes as you said today, you do indeed seem to have turned into the BFL you describe very poorly.
Though, who knows if your description of BFL is correct ...

Who's controlling the defcon number? I'd step it up one more

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lol

Um, if that is the front, then how do we control the bloody thing? Telepathy?

There aren't any USB or Ethernet ports.

I could pick one up in ShenZhen....... that would put a stop to any issues related to people thinking its a scam.....

Anyone notice that they always take a picture of it from the rear?

Why are they hiding the front for? (Hidden nexus 7?)

(Kidding)

Edit: You have all these exhaust fans in the back, so what does the front look like? It has to be slotted in the front right?

Would've been more with a tracking number.

Why did it cost so much?