Topic: GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread - page 132. (Read 268015 times)

Thanks

There's a few suggestions in other threads (click quote links for context and discussion);



Don't forget to also look for a fan for cooling;

That's a good point. Although from a pragmatic standpoint it probably would work because a couple of flavors of cgminer are included with the image. There probably isn't too much divergence between these versions of miner software, so the needed libraries are already likely installed.

In any case, I take your point. I'll PM the Minera author to ask him about Compac support, and if it's OK for me to post an image.

If I do post an image, I'll have to clean it up a bit first. I've already personalized it for me.

A pi binary is still not necessarily going to work on a different OS because it depends on what libraries it was linked against.  Honestly people would get a lot more mileage out of a minera image, whether official or not as that's easier to use.  I don't have the bandwidth to host it but could post it somewhere accessible.

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novak

Sticks came in today!

Got them running right away with the stock 150 frequency and no tweaking. I don't want to go higher until I've got the USB Y splitters, which take forever to ship from China.

Between the two, I'm getting 16 GH/s of raw power!

Any suggested powered USB hubs from Amazon? I'm running out of ports on my eeepc.

I could do that, but it would be a 2 GB download (compressed). Also I'm not the Minera developer, so that would feel a bit odd.

Probably better would be for Minera to include cgminer-gekko as a built-in option for an upcoming release. Also updating to bfgminer 5.3.0 would be nice (once the kinks there are ironed out). That way Minera would work with the sticks out of the box, providing a couple of mining software choices.

In the meantime if there's any interest in a Pi version of cgminer-gekko, I could post that binary or give it to Novak for him to post. That would at least cut out the build time (which is kind of slow on a Pi). All people would need to do is copy it to the right place and twiddle some GUI settings.

Your hashrate is actually more suggestive of a 200 MHz clock rate.  Did you supply a command line argument to force it to 150 MHz, or did you just "run it straight from the package". Your rates look great!

My package arrived at work today, so I have to wait until tonight to try mine out.  

To make this very easy what could happen is one person does it.  Then make an image of the SD card anyone can download.

If a image was provided and could be put to card it would be more "dummie" proof for lack of better term. 

I don't have my sticks yet, but I'm configuring the software to get ready. I'm using Minera on a Raspberry Pi, but ran into some problems this morning. If anyone else is using Minera on a Pi, hopefully this info will be helpful.

The version of bfgminer that comes with Minera is too old to use with the sticks. It has to be at least v5.3.0. Unfortunately my attempts to build the latest bfgminer have not succeeded. When using the Minera script (i.e. "build_miner.sh bfgminer"), I ended up with a very old version of bfgminer being built. And when I manually built bfgminer from the git trunk, I ended up with 5.2.0, which is also too old.

I've posted on the minera and bfgminer threads, but decided to move on and try Novak's cgminer-gekko.

Novak's instructions on this thread (the usual configure, make, sudo make install pattern), work fine. You should ssh in as the minera user (password "minera" if you didn't change it) then follow Novak's instructions to build and install.

Once built, you have to make the binary "visible" to minera by copying it to the "custom" minera folder (you also have to use a different name than "cgminer"):


Once copied, enable this binary as a custom miner by going to Settings -> Custom miners in the minera web GUI. There should be an entry for "cgminer-gekko" which you just have to turn on. If there is no "cgminer-gekko" entry, refresh the page so that minera will take a fresh look a the "custom" folder.

Once the new cgminer-gekko is configured as a custom miner, you can select it from the popup list under Local Miner Settings. Then you can specify your frequency under Manual options (e.g. --compac-freq 150). You would also set up the usual options using the web GUI, like your pools.

When you start up your miner, you can see the log in the Minera GUI, if logging was enabled. You can use the log to troubleshoot as needed. I typically disable the log after things are working just to reduce wear and tear on the SD card. If you want to get super fancy, you can install ramlog to put the log files in on a ram disk. I have a tutorial for that on the forum, but I have to admit that I don't bother setting this up any more.

Once I've resolved the bfgminer version issues, I might set it up as an alternative local miner. But first I'll probably try the above "cgminer-gekko" configuration (once my sticks arrive).

Hope this helps...

Thanks Novak, I'll try loading cgminer-gekko up on the Pi today after work.

So hopefully by the time the sticks arrive, I'll have the hub and everything else ready, then all I have to do is plug, tweak a little, and play 

If you want to run the sticks on linux, you'll need either bfgminer or cgminer.  Either way you are probably going to have to compile them, but I've had little trouble with this so it's probably just a matter of running a few simple commands.

Here's what you'd do to get cgminer on linux going:
1. Open a terminal.
2. wget http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz            

This downloads the file- you can save it from your browser instead, it's the same thing.

3. tar -xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz

This extracts the files. which are compressed (like a zip file for linux)

4. cd cgminer-gekko
 
Enters the cgminer-gekko folder you just extracted.

5. sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool

You need to install the dependencies for cgminer.

6. ./autogen.sh

This will generate a configure script for you which will set up compiling for your system.

7. ./configure --enable-gekko

This will configure the build.  This is the most likely place to have anything go wrong, if it does, let me know exactly what's up.  Odds are it would be some package that you should have installed.

8. make

Performs the build.  If you get an error there- again, let me know details.

You are ready to run cgminer.  This should look something like:

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

Although if you don't have permissions setup you may have to become root or use sudo, eg,

sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --compac-freq 150

cgminer should now detect any compacs plugged in while it is running.  Obviously you'll use a slightly different command to launch cgminer, if you use that one you'll be mining for us!  Most pools even post example commands, let me know if you need help figuring it out.

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novak

OK I'll be that guy...have no idea how to set up a usb stick

so.....if someone could point me to the dummy directions I'd appreciate it

be step by step ....my first ASIC was a plug and play KNC Jupiter 550gh ....so never had to learn any of this stuff

to top it all off I'll likely run them on a Unbuntu machine(s) (which i just run putty.exe on) so them skills are lame to (the 2 laptops monitoring with putty.exe my Titan(s))


(there is always that one clueless guy ..yep its me)    lost in the cornfield maze need a search and rescue team

NP

I just posted them hoping that it would motivate a few people on the sidelines.

I like the all green looks pretty sexy.   Everything from PCB to heatsink.

Thanks for posting closeups of final product.

Should work fine, just won't autodetect. So you'll need -S compac:\\.\COM1 (or whatever; compac:all is fine too).

TY sidehack and novak!

came nicely and safely packaged.

I'll play with it later tonight!

https://i.imgur.com/MjgcFh8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/7bcg433.jpg

That's fine I just wasn't sure if you had a pi or something that you could build cgminer on- thought I'd offer.

If you have any trouble with the cgminer let me know, this is my first time making my own driver for it.  As for everything you'll need zadig on windows.

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novak

Happy to be part of this awesome project! 

My software skills are pretty weak.

Not a big deal as the new ones are coming.

I also have a house full of pcs and or macs.

So when the new ones come I will setup one with the bfgminer and one with the new cfgminer.

As for running Linux I should learn, but most likely I  just do not have the time.