I'm trying the simplest thing in the world: running 1 gekkoscience 2pac on a Raspberry pi. I have it hooked up to a good powered USB hub, and have installed minera to the pi. I see it on my router, and entered the address into my browser. So far, so good, it takes me to hte minera page. I've tried to attach it to my miner, slush pool, which is in turn attached to my wallet, and get it running. As far as I can tell, nothing is connected. I have some questions.
1) is the mining software itself bundled up into minera?
2) how can I tell that the gekko is actually mining?
3) what else am I missing?
4) are gekkos still even supported? I know this isn't the path to riches: it's a solar energy project that I'm doing to prove a point.
Sorry for the dim questions. I'm new to this.
1) is the mining software itself bundled up into minera?
2) how can I tell that the gekko is actually mining?
3) what else am I missing?
4) are gekkos still even supported? I know this isn't the path to riches: it's a solar energy project that I'm doing to prove a point.
Sorry for the dim questions. I'm new to this.
Minera hasn't a built-in miner for Gekko (I'll work on this), if you have the latest image you could find the cgminer-vthoang fork as custom miner in the settings page, you have to use that.
Otherwise you have to compile it as customer miner before using it.
Miner to use: https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer
How to use a custom miner: https://github.com/getminera/minera/wiki/Local-miners#custom-miners
PS @tfbiii thanks.
OK. I have made some progress. Thanks to Spencers great tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQndxAfk-hM, I seem to have the thing compilied and uploaded. I found the cgminer-vthoang in my minera browser after resetting, which is a TON of progress. So now I have my gekko in my powered usb hub which is connected to my pi, which is connected to my router. I am seeing my pools in the dashboard. The only problem is that I am seeing a "no active devices found" error under Local Miner Details. The gekko is glowing green, and I've rebooted it a few times. What am I missing now? Do I have to add the gekko manually?
/SO CLOSE! ARRG.
Someone suggested me to use dwc_otg.speed=1 into /boot/cmdline.txt
This fixes the RPI USB to be 1.1 and could help finding the devices.
PS you need a reboot
