Topic: Bi-Fury on Debian with cgminer - Recognised, but not mining. Help. (Read 643 times)

Hi,

I've followed many of the guides in this forum and found them very helpful, however I'm still unable to mine with my Bi-Fury. I'm hoping for some guidance.

I'm mining with cgminer 3.11 on Debian. All my block erupters are still fine, but my Bi-Fury is not. It shows up in Cgminer as a BX device and also shows the temperature, but it will not mine. The hash rate is 0.0.

I have upgraded the firmware, but it has not helped. I'm hoping I've done it correctly.  I must be doing it partially correct, cause I can access the device and copy the firmware.bin file. I'm just not sure if the process is 100% successful.

 Prior to updating, when I plugged in my Bi-Fury, the green LED would illuminate and stay on. Since upgrading, the green and red lights briefly flash, but then no lights come back on until cgminer picks up the Bi-Fury. Then the green light stays on even though it's not actually mining. Is this normal?

I've tried upgrading in Windows and in Linux, neither works. I originally tried mining with cgminer on Win7, but couldn't get the Bi-Fury to come up in cgminer at all.

My mining rig is an older Acer laptop. I've tried plugging the Bi-Fury directly into a USB port and through two different powered USB hubs. None of the ports are USB 3.0.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks