Topic: BAMT version 0.5 - Easy USB based mining Linux with farm wide management tools - page 9. (Read 324109 times)

I would also donate for an updated version with newest miners, drivers, litecoin support, etc.

I don't have much but I'd throw in what I can.

No hard feelings here. Been running BAMT for awhile now. I donated way back because I loved your work. Wasn't looking to pay for an update. Just donating as a sort of thank you for taking your own time out of your day to help us all out.

I don't know much about tinkering with linux, but I'd gladly appreciate some sort of Litecoin update for BAMT. Sort of like a version that mines Litecoin instead of Bitcoin out-of-the-box, and keeping all the same commands/ssh stuff. That stuff was awesome, and I'm gonna miss it now that I have to switch all my rigs over to Windows.

If I'm going to be making thousands of dollars worth off of someone elses work, I know I can donate a small portion to the guy that made it happen. I pledge $100 in either BTC/LTC if such a version ever came out. I'm sure we can get some other forum users to rally up, donate, add links in sigs, and try to get this going. It's just too freakin awesome, and I'd really hate to see BAMT become useless.

I played with .6 "preview" and it seemed less stable than .5, but then again, I don't have any 7xxx series GPU which was the stronger reason of why it was being built. I was just using 5xxx, 6xxx, and FPGAs. I too donated, even for the mystical unicorn that was BAMT Pro with Android app. I was sad to see progress languish, but totally understand why. Staying motivated to provide updates to a product that you see downloaded X number of times and taking patches is hard. You get a feel for how many people are just using and not contributing at all, and that can be frustrating, especially if you have other commitments in life and have to move on opportunities that do make you money. A hobby is hobby until it becomes work, which ends up sucking especially work you don't get compensated for doing.

That being said, I do wish for the project to continue, in whatever form that may be. There will be a large number of GPU based users with Alt coin affinity looking for a home once the ASICs really start to deploy, they are going to gravitate to what is easy to use and setup. But Alt coins being Alt coins, how much contribution do you think they would be willing to give is the question and do you really want to be taking donations in that denomination, then have to deal with conversions etc. It's a PITA.

It is my opinion that the next wave of mining with ASICs would be a target market. "BAMT ASIC" All the features and simplicity of BAMT but for the ASIC miners. USB Boot, easy updating cgminer/bfgminer support when new releases become available, graphs, full integration with gpumon/mgpumon, (renamed asicmon/masicmon) central management of your farm from a web browser or mobile device. I don't know how much you would be able to receive in donations for such a product, I would of course donate, but that alone would not be worth your time. But it is fun to dream of such a product. (Yes I know you can make some of this with cgminer's API with miner.php, and I have.)

Some of us in the FPGA crowd have gravitated to the Pi/Minepeon product, which has been fun, but the Pi has little glitches on occasion with it's USB hardware that makes you long for the stability of a standard Intel/AMD motherboard, of which many of us have stacks of these days. Plus I doubt a Pi is going to handle 8+ Single SCs or a couple Mini Rigs.

So I guess it is really up to you on the direction you want to take it. I for one would like to see it evolve.

Every .6 version I was able to get my hands on would not work. I do not want my btc back. I would like just a working product. No hard feelings(personal) about it, it's only money.

Here is what I would like to see. Bamt .x (CGMINER w/Stratum for 7xxx cards) Plug in and go just like .5c

If you need more donations ask if not "get busy".

When is the next meeting BTW?

I can host the dns, just PM or email me what is needed.

james at gigamining dot com

As for donations, I'm just assuming here, but I've personally donated quite a bit to keep BAMT going. If a 0.6 came out, I would like to use it.

GPU mining is STILL profitable and there is not reason to quit until it is not.

Best,
James

I didn't realize there were bad feelings about this.

All of the BTC donated towards the 7970 were used for exactly that.  I also put in all of the unmarked donations for a period of several months.
Absolutely everything that came in via donations went towards the card, i.e. I didn't make a dime for any of the work I had already put into BAMT.   I paid 60 BTC for the card, about $480 I believe.  

It took me a couple more months to write version 0.6, which includes support for the 7970s.  I did release it for testing, but I never really got any feedback on it.   At the time it seemed that interest had moved on to other devices or away from mining altogether (this was back in the days were btc price was kind of stagnant around $8 iirc).  Very little chatter on IRC etc.  I just got the impression it was too late to matter.

So... how do we make this right?  I don't want anybody feeling shitty about things.  I can sell the card and send the $ back to whomever donated, or we can make 0.6 more visible, or.... ?

Edit - PS I didn't take the web site down, the DNS was donated by someone and they apparently did not renew it.  I forget who that was

Problem solved
Thanks a lot.

Can you say anything to my problem mentioned before?
Because of the 0% load.
Does it affect anything else except the displayed data?

EDIT: Ok i fixed it by myself.
I now have the rig directly connected to my router in the basement.
Before i had it connected via devolo dlan to my network.
So it probably always got no right connection to the pool and so on.
Now its working fine

If you are seeing the correct hash rate on your pool, I would not worry about that stat.
Boot the system without a monitor plugged into it, then just SSH. You should be good to go.

i tried your command and what i got is:
utiliziation of both cards is 0%

so...its a fault of the cards...but..is it a big fault?
does it affect anything else except the display?


Then, another question.
I now have a monitor connected to one of the two cards.
But i want to run this rig completly headless in the basement later.

Now, when i pull of the vga-cable, the gpu doesnt create any mh/s anymore...the display gets red and no statistics can be seen.
How can i solve this problem?

the load is read using atitweak directly from the card.  You can view card stats yourself by doing "atitweak -s"
If the card is providing incorrect data, BAMT will not correct for it.  It's a fault of the card's.

Hey guys,

After lots of hours spending for installing and configuring, im happy that BAMT is now running "fine".

I got connection to my pool, creating hashes and so on.

BUT, it always tells me that there is 0% load:



Also the Mh/s rate isnt fine at all.
I have 2x HD7950 who ran at 625 Mh/s under windows before.

Here is my cgminer.cfg:



Is there anything set up wrong?
Or why does it always tells me 0% load?


greetz

thank u,downloading...

How can i get i show my othere rigs on one site , i only think about the web stats site

NWM found out

On #1 - sorry, zero experience with LTC.
On #2 - Why not just SSH to the Rig with putty.exe? Why xrdp, do you want a GUI? There really is nothing needed that you can't do from SSH. You can launch gpumon, connect to cgminer if you mine with that. (screen -r cgminer) (Ctrl-A+D to exit) What more did you need to do?

You're welcome   Use the files2 mirror it's our uber fast server.

I hope this is the right thread to post this in.


I have 2 problems.


1 is that I have BAMT mining LTC.


I start the miners and it works as you would expect.  But after a couple hours I come back to the rig and it says it is still mining but the accepting shares is not going up.   It is not froze because I can move the mouse and I can see the fan speed % changing.  I am using GPUmon to view this.

Anyone have any idea why it would do this?  I see in GPUmon where it says shares Accept/Invalid but it does not list how many HW it is generating.  Could this be that after a few hours it is only generating HW and therefore it is not showing anything?




And 2 is that I have followed this somewhat of a guide to SSH into my rig locally.






For one when I do "apt-get install xrdp"  it says that XRDP is already installed.

Then when I



I search "MSTSC" which opens Remote Desktop Connection.

Where it says computer I put the local IP address that BAMT is giving me, and for user name I put "live".

Then I click connect and it opens a window that says login to XRDP and it gives me a few different options.


sesman-Xvnc
console
vnc-any
sesman-any
rdp-any
sesman-X11rdp


I have tried all of them and I couldn't get any of them to work.  I tried with using "live" as the user and sudo/root as the user. 



It gives me problem connecting or xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login failed



Any idea what I am doing wrong?  I just need to be able to log in remotely and be able to restart the miners and stuff.   If I use the browser way I can view what is going on but I didn't see anywhere where you could actually control BAMT.




Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks you !

Will try it, thanks!

I believe @mc_lovin is still hooking people up here from his site:
http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/linux-distros/bamt-version-0-5-easy-usb-based-mining-linux-with-farm-wide-management-tools/

Where can i get BAMT 0.5v?