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Topic: Avalon ASIC users thread - page 125. (Read 438596 times)

legendary
Activity: 1820
Merit: 1001
July 09, 2013, 10:34:21 PM
Problems mining on a pool is this cgminer problem within unit or is this problem on their side on the pool

The shares you sent have been looking like this:
020000005e4757cdbd7b756ceac436c46fe3ba6d9f532adaca8541c3beba010000000000246cf2c 7800231d5d50c5a7c9241e7465fb2085346478a4b95c70a34d43fec20daa1dc518db6011b70523f dc80000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000280

I think your miner messed up formatting the shares from mining to results.

it seems that it puts the result at the beginning

correct form should be:
result of the hash:
020000005e4757cdbd7b756ceac436c46fe3ba6d9f532adaca8541c3beba01
data sent to pool
0000000000246cf2c7800231d5d50c5a7c9241e7465fb2085346478a4b95c70a34d43fec20daa1d c518db6011b70523fdc800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000280

Is this a bug to be fixed? or something to do with cgminer or something to do on their side on the pool ?
legendary
Activity: 3080
Merit: 1080
July 09, 2013, 09:54:16 PM
i've done it more times than i could count... thought i bricked one once but a quick hard reboot solved it all



Isn't rebooting during a flash pretty much the worst possible idea?  Tongue

I've done this a million times on server hardware. Never with an ASIC. The downtime in case of an issue and probable lack of being able to return it is what scares me.

All you are flashing is the router really =) nothing else. It should be fine, I doubt it has a very high failure rate... I havent heard of any known flashing failures on avalon, under normal conditions.
But yeah, its just like flashing a mobo, same chances of failing I suppose... which over my PC career seems to be 1% of flashes I do, something breaks =P

It actually happened to me. The reality is that the TPLINK routers in these things are not 100% perfect and some of them will have some minor failures and defects. So, in the rare event that this happens to you I STRONGLY suggest you get yourself a Raspberry Pi as a backup mining device.
legendary
Activity: 2450
Merit: 1002
July 09, 2013, 08:53:33 PM
i've done it more times than i could count... thought i bricked one once but a quick hard reboot solved it all



Isn't rebooting during a flash pretty much the worst possible idea?  Tongue

I've done this a million times on server hardware. Never with an ASIC. The downtime in case of an issue and probable lack of being able to return it is what scares me.

All you are flashing is the router really =) nothing else. It should be fine, I doubt it has a very high failure rate... I havent heard of any known flashing failures on avalon, under normal conditions.
But yeah, its just like flashing a mobo, same chances of failing I suppose... which over my PC career seems to be 1% of flashes I do, something breaks =P
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 08:40:12 PM
i've done it more times than i could count... thought i bricked one once but a quick hard reboot solved it all



Isn't rebooting during a flash pretty much the worst possible idea?  Tongue

I've done this a million times on server hardware. Never with an ASIC. The downtime in case of an issue and probable lack of being able to return it is what scares me.
legendary
Activity: 1036
Merit: 1000
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July 09, 2013, 08:13:07 PM
i've done it more times than i could count... thought i bricked one once but a quick hard reboot solved it all

member
Activity: 69
Merit: 10
July 09, 2013, 07:58:39 PM
Sounds good to me, performance looks awesome already but some more reliability would be even more important.

I will admit flashing it sounds a little scary. If I brick it it's all over.

It sounds scary, but I've done it twice on three different ones and it was fine.
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 07:47:35 PM
craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?

Sorry, this thing cost me a pretty penny. I just wanted some advice to help get it working. Was running fine for hours then started fudging around.

Thanks for the valuable input..

FW update is a must to get the thing running better then it is now =)
Improves reliability significantly.

Sounds good to me, performance looks awesome already but some more reliability would be even more important.

I will admit flashing it sounds a little scary. If I brick it it's all over.
legendary
Activity: 2450
Merit: 1002
July 09, 2013, 07:40:51 PM
craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?

Sorry, this thing cost me a pretty penny. I just wanted some advice to help get it working. Was running fine for hours then started fudging around.

Thanks for the valuable input..

FW update is a must to get the thing running better then it is now =)
Improves reliability significantly.
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 07:28:22 PM
craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?

Sorry, this thing cost me a pretty penny. I just wanted some advice to help get it working. Was running fine for hours then started fudging around.

Thanks for the valuable input..
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 07:27:09 PM
how can I force it to use the secondary wired connection for pool connecting? I'm connected to the default 192.168.0.100

I added the secondary as 192.168.1.45

I am so confused dude, what exactly is it that you are trying to do?
Also, first update the avy firmware to conmans latest cgminer build:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/avalon/20130703/

It's running on wireless again. I'm going to monitor it for now. Will consider FW update later this week.
legendary
Activity: 4592
Merit: 1851
Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
July 09, 2013, 07:23:15 PM
craslovell - seriously - one or two posts - not 9.
Have you never used a forum before in your life?
legendary
Activity: 2450
Merit: 1002
July 09, 2013, 07:18:22 PM
how can I force it to use the secondary wired connection for pool connecting? I'm connected to the default 192.168.0.100

I added the secondary as 192.168.1.45

I am so confused dude, what exactly is it that you are trying to do?
Also, first update the avy firmware to conmans latest cgminer build:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/avalon/20130703/
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 07:06:52 PM
how can I force it to use the secondary wired connection for pool connecting? I'm connected to the default 192.168.0.100

I added the secondary as 192.168.1.45
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 06:59:57 PM
tried to add secondary lan connection for wired connection and now I can't connect to the miner at all.... what a headache this is causing
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 06:28:51 PM
pure stales coming across now
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 06:27:03 PM
Looks like cgminer is started, but no accepts or anything....

Ahhh I just want this contraption to work!
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 06:24:55 PM
And I'm getting socket connect failed now. No cgminer start.

From what I read I may have some ports being blocked? Hopefully ISP didn't shut me down!
legendary
Activity: 1112
Merit: 1000
July 09, 2013, 06:21:03 PM
There's a ton of this in the logs

Jul  9 21:45:01 OpenWrt cron.info crond[885]: crond: USER root pid 13416 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor

Literally 100 of these messages in a row

That is normaal, it's a script run every 2 minutes (check with crontab -l from the root promt) that checks is your cgminer process is active, if not it restarts it

Code:
root@avalon00:~# crontab -l
*/2 *  *   *   *     /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor
root@avalon00:~#
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 06:13:20 PM
There's a ton of this in the logs

Jul  9 21:45:01 OpenWrt cron.info crond[885]: crond: USER root pid 13416 cmd /usr/bin/cgminer-monitor

Literally 100 of these messages in a row
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1021
July 09, 2013, 06:11:04 PM
It seems to be stumbling here the past hour. Another 2 mins of no shares submitted... Connection appears fine. I am using wireless with a signal strength of 57% but I don't see any drops.

When it stops submitting shares the NMW value climbs quickly
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