I have a Raspi B with a Ztex board and will test your Linux this week.
One question: Do you know about the USB problems of the Raspi and have you checked the many forum threads about them, for example http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=12097 or https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/raspberry-pi-usb-device-limitation-118669 ?
Topic: Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon - page 139. (Read 684871 times)
Update: MinePeon 0.2.4.6 just hit sourceforge and you can get it at;-
http://sourceforge.net/projects/minepeon/files/latest/download?source=files
Because of the Apache 2.2 to 2.4 changes you will need to download and re-image (backup/restore if you want)
A short list of changes are;-
MinePeon 0.2.4.6 release notes
Cgminer 4.0.1
Bfgminer 3.10.0
Technobit HEX cgminer updated to 3.12.3 now supporting;-
hexminera hexminerc hexminerb hexmineru hexminer8
Plugins;- mariogrip's live plugin system implementated
Updates;- mariogrip Live update implemented
Arch Linux updated
CSRFGuard implemented to avoid CSRF attacks
Apache 2.4 replaces Apache 2.2
PHP moved to fastCGI
Design halt, reboot and restart little prettier
Languages mariogrip Languages implemented
Norwegian mariogrip implemented
Console Menu implemented for common functions (more to come)
Bug fixes:
Enjoy!
Neil
=== Older Post ===
UPDATE: MinePeon 0.2.4 Release
Read more at MinePeon 0.2.4 Release
Joint the forums for support.
Neil
=== Original Post ===
Hi All,
For some time I have been working on building a lightweight Linux for the Raspberry PI in my spare time with the intention of making it freely available for all to use. I am very experienced with Linux and have been running my own Arch Linux GPU miners for quite some time now so I have cleaned it up (a lot) ported it over to ARM for the Raspberry PI.
Anyway, it seems that ASICs might be available soon and I would like to have it ready for that but it is missing one exceedingly important ingredient, testing. I have done as much testing as I possibly can but my resources are somewhat limited, while I have a tone of GPUs I don't own any FPGAs that I can test with (and I certainly aren't going to buy one now) so I thought I would come to the community and ask for a bit of help.
So, if you have a Raspberry PI and a FPGA (or even just a PI if you just want to CPU mine for testing purposes) and want to help it would be appreciated, it is still in what I would call early alpha but it should be usable. I have had one CPU mining for over 300 hours now without interruption.
I am hosting the images over at SourceForge so you can grab it from here;-
https://sourceforge.net/projects/minepeon/files/release/
The Official site is a bit raw as of yet, I am no graphic artist, and very dyslexic (no joke, its why I got into computing in the first place) but it has a few instructions and tips that will hopefully help just about anyone get it going is avalable here;-
http://mineforeman.com/minepeon/
Thanks for any help you can offer, honestly even a report that you can understand the instructions and get a login prompt will help. If you report issues here I will try to get back to you as soon as possible with fixes.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/minepeon/files/latest/download?source=files
Because of the Apache 2.2 to 2.4 changes you will need to download and re-image (backup/restore if you want)
A short list of changes are;-
MinePeon 0.2.4.6 release notes
Cgminer 4.0.1
Bfgminer 3.10.0
Technobit HEX cgminer updated to 3.12.3 now supporting;-
hexminera hexminerc hexminerb hexmineru hexminer8
Plugins;- mariogrip's live plugin system implementated
Updates;- mariogrip Live update implemented
Arch Linux updated
CSRFGuard implemented to avoid CSRF attacks
Apache 2.4 replaces Apache 2.2
PHP moved to fastCGI
Design halt, reboot and restart little prettier
Languages mariogrip Languages implemented
Norwegian mariogrip implemented
Console Menu implemented for common functions (more to come)
Bug fixes:
- When saving pools, it says "failed to restart miner" but it did restart
miner is not changing back to original pool
Donate sleeps between disable and remove pool (makes more stable)
miner is (sometimes) not changing to Donate pool.
Switch pool not working
Minepeon cannot access the api (miners)
Not listing devices (bfgminer)
++
Enjoy!
Neil
=== Older Post ===
UPDATE: MinePeon 0.2.4 Release
Read more at MinePeon 0.2.4 Release
Joint the forums for support.
Neil
=== Original Post ===
Hi All,
For some time I have been working on building a lightweight Linux for the Raspberry PI in my spare time with the intention of making it freely available for all to use. I am very experienced with Linux and have been running my own Arch Linux GPU miners for quite some time now so I have cleaned it up (a lot) ported it over to ARM for the Raspberry PI.
Anyway, it seems that ASICs might be available soon and I would like to have it ready for that but it is missing one exceedingly important ingredient, testing. I have done as much testing as I possibly can but my resources are somewhat limited, while I have a tone of GPUs I don't own any FPGAs that I can test with (and I certainly aren't going to buy one now) so I thought I would come to the community and ask for a bit of help.
So, if you have a Raspberry PI and a FPGA (or even just a PI if you just want to CPU mine for testing purposes) and want to help it would be appreciated, it is still in what I would call early alpha but it should be usable. I have had one CPU mining for over 300 hours now without interruption.
I am hosting the images over at SourceForge so you can grab it from here;-
https://sourceforge.net/projects/minepeon/files/release/
The Official site is a bit raw as of yet, I am no graphic artist, and very dyslexic (no joke, its why I got into computing in the first place) but it has a few instructions and tips that will hopefully help just about anyone get it going is avalable here;-
http://mineforeman.com/minepeon/
Thanks for any help you can offer, honestly even a report that you can understand the instructions and get a login prompt will help. If you report issues here I will try to get back to you as soon as possible with fixes.
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