BAMT version 0.5 - Easy USB based mining Linux with farm wide management tools - page 39.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 14, 2012, 09:46:46 PM

I have an additional NIC in the machine now.. we'll wait until it's failed.

I put the tarball up for you: https://eclipsemc.com/files/cgminer_git.tar.gz

sounds good. drop this in /usr/src and good to go? or any additional tools need to be installed via apt, any other things the fix should run so it "just works" ?

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I have an additional NIC in the machine now.. we'll wait until it's failed.

I put the tarball up for you: https://eclipsemc.com/files/cgminer_git.tar.gz

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Ok, I'll dig up an external nic card and go install it shortly.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 14, 2012, 07:30:32 PM

I can put a second card in it that has a static IP address and you can plunk with the built in adapter on DHCP.

I will go look which board and NIC is having the problems, I don't remember off the top of my head. I will also try to get a tarball of the cgminer stuff to you as well, hopefully tonight.

that would work. probably best to let it fail and then I'll come in and try to see wtf has gone wrong. as i understand it, usually takes some hours for the failure and prior to that things seem normal.. so when you have time set one up and we'll wait for the dhcp nic to crap out.

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I can put a second card in it that has a static IP address and you can plunk with the built in adapter on DHCP.

I will go look which board and NIC is having the problems, I don't remember off the top of my head. I will also try to get a tarball of the cgminer stuff to you as well, hopefully tonight.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 13, 2012, 11:09:43 PM

I can give you remote access to one if you want.

it would be preferable to recreate the problem locally... using remote access to troubleshoot a problem that is essentially the loss of networking doesn't sound like a lot of fun for hopefully obvious reasons.
can you tell me some details of a system that doesnt work correctly? Nic and/or motherboard seem like the most likely factors.

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I can give you remote access to one if you want.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 13, 2012, 09:27:36 AM

The problem is with DHCP to begin with, so no, that does not solve the problem.

As a side note to McLovin's fix - you can accomplish the same thing by right clicking on the network icon and set your static IP in the GUI. Works fine for me on the machines that experience this problem.

is there any rhyme or reason to which machines have this issue and which don't? I would like to resolve it but like everything else its nearly impossible to address with no way to recreate it here. I rotated several different nics in my test rig but none exhibit this issue.

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The problem is with DHCP to begin with, so no, that does not solve the problem.

As a side note to McLovin's fix - you can accomplish the same thing by right clicking on the network icon and set your static IP in the GUI. Works fine for me on the machines that experience this problem.

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Quote from: Isokivi on May 13, 2012, 07:09:30 AM

Quote from: mc_lovin on May 13, 2012, 12:06:27 AM

If you guys are having problems with BAMT stopping mining after awhile due to network disconnect, try my fix:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1235#msg1235

I applied the "fix", the rig nolonger randomly loses connetion, or if it does it's able to regain it. WOOHOO.
However it does not resume mining when this problem occurs, so Im having trouble seeing the benefits here : /

I'll toss in 5btc to actually fix this issue, paid when my problem rig has been up for 120 consecutive hours. Others with the problem feel free to chip in.

It's much easier just to assign it a static and non-expiring IP from the router.

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Quote from: mc_lovin on May 13, 2012, 12:06:27 AM

If you guys are having problems with BAMT stopping mining after awhile due to network disconnect, try my fix:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1235#msg1235

I applied the "fix", the rig nolonger randomly loses connetion, or if it does it's able to regain it. WOOHOO.
However it does not resume mining when this problem occurs, so Im having trouble seeing the benefits here : /

I'll toss in 5btc to actually fix this issue, paid when my problem rig has been up for 120 consecutive hours. Others with the problem feel free to chip in.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 12, 2012, 05:24:45 PM

I've already made it with regards to point 1. What do you need to include it?

we need a tarball with any necessary files and an optional bash script with any commands that need to run before or after the tarball is unpacked.

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Quote from: rjk on May 12, 2012, 09:49:41 PM

Quote from: abracadabra on May 12, 2012, 07:01:58 PM

Quote from: Inaba on May 12, 2012, 05:24:45 PM

.. whether or not you're using GPUs, BAMT is still useful... or is that no longer the case with BAMT

I like to use a hammer to drive a nail.
Sounds like you like using a pliers to drive the nail.
Use the right tool for the job.

BAMT is the "Big A Miner Thing", which sort of suggests that it could be for more than just GPUs

I am the A in BAMT, because A stands for Aaron and Aaron is me. BAMT may support non GPU rigs in the future, but it does not support them now.
Due to extremely low donation to work ratio, I am basically only doing things that are funded in advance by donations at this point.

However, anyone is most welcome to do the work necessary to support non GPU rigs. Send me the new code and I'll gladly put it in.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 12, 2012, 05:24:45 PM

I've already made it with regards to point 1. What do you need to include it?

With regards to point two, as you said a number of pages ago, the utility of BAMT is that it already has all the tools built in for mining, instead of gathering them yourself. So whether or not you're using GPUs, BAMT is still useful... or is that no longer the case with BAMT?

Quote from: lodcrappo on March 02, 2012, 12:55:06 PM

does stock linux have the ATI drivers, the SDK, the openCL libraries, atitweak, amdoverdrivectl, phoenix and cgminer preinstalled and ready to run?
does stock linux provide updates to this software via an automatic patch system?
etc,etc.

" ATI drivers, the SDK, the openCL libraries, atitweak, amdoverdrivectl, phoenix and cgminer"

hmmm... which of these are useful if you are not using GPUS...

not ATI drivers
not the SDK
not the openCL libs
not atitweak
not amdoverdrivectl
not phoenix

I'm going to assume you know that, and are just being silly.

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Quote from: mc_lovin on May 13, 2012, 12:06:27 AM

If you guys are having problems with BAMT stopping mining after awhile due to network disconnect, try my fix:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1235#msg1235

This "fix" is simply to remove the network-manager packager and configure your networking statically.

It is not ideal. Still looking for something that corrects the problem without reducing functionality.

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www.bitcointrading.com

If you guys are having problems with BAMT stopping mining after awhile due to network disconnect, try my fix:

http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?topic=416.msg1235#msg1235

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Quote from: abracadabra on May 12, 2012, 07:01:58 PM

Use the right tool for the job.

Which is what?

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Quote from: rjk on May 12, 2012, 09:49:41 PM

BAMT is the "Big A Miner Thing", which sort of suggests that it could be for more than just GPUs, and it would be even more cool if all the graphs and stuff supported FPGAs of various ilks. Unfortunately, its creator has a lot less time on his hands then do the maintainers of other various bitcoin mining related things. So I suppose at this point it is a question of Patience Grasshopper and donating before anything happens.

I completely agree, it would be great if BAMT was able to evolve with the ever increasing popularity of FPGA's. I think mgpumon is the best feature of BAMT and in the present state it can work great to monitor FPGA's. As you can see by taking a look at gigavps url, it sure is cool to see all the BFL's on a single host monitored through cgminer and contributing to the GPU farm. The UI of mgpumon certainly looks much more polished over other solutions that's for sure. I doubt that would be easy to pull off in standard Linux to monitor the FPGA's with a UI. It seems to at least play nice with them currently via cgminer.

I also see what Inaba is going for with a GPU-less rig. I can envision the new AMD Trinity APU soon to be released with a built in Radeon 7660 would meet the need to not need a standard graphics card and be very efficient while kicking a few hashes in. When you combine that with an 80+ Gold PSU, FPGA's, and custom cables to power them from the PSU it sounds like the perfect combination to make a very efficient "next generation rig".

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Quote from: abracadabra on May 12, 2012, 07:01:58 PM

Quote from: Inaba on May 12, 2012, 05:24:45 PM

.. whether or not you're using GPUs, BAMT is still useful... or is that no longer the case with BAMT

I like to use a hammer to drive a nail.
Sounds like you like using a pliers to drive the nail.
Use the right tool for the job.

BAMT is the "Big A Miner Thing", which sort of suggests that it could be for more than just GPUs, and it would be even more cool if all the graphs and stuff supported FPGAs of various ilks. Unfortunately, its creator has a lot less time on his hands then do the maintainers of other various bitcoin mining related things. So I suppose at this point it is a question of Patience Grasshopper and donating before anything happens.

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Quote from: Inaba on May 12, 2012, 05:24:45 PM

.. whether or not you're using GPUs, BAMT is still useful... or is that no longer the case with BAMT

I like to use a hammer to drive a nail.
Sounds like you like using a pliers to drive the nail.
Use the right tool for the job.

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