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Topic: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread - page 106. (Read 71321 times)

legendary
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What temp should the fans come on? So far I havent seen it spin up yet.

my fans turn on as soon as i power the hub. even if its not plugged in.

legendary
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This is normal, even on my test setup I have to restart them once in a while if your running multiple sticks. Not much you can do about it unless your hubs are really good. Have you turned down your voltage from stock setting since your running 600 MHz it looks like? Also try raising your memory voltage a bit and see if that helps with stability.

Im working on driver update that will auto-restart them once it detects it has stopped hashing. bfgminer is supposed to do this already, but its sick/dead/restart code is buggy.
i havent messed with the volts yet.. or overlocking.. i want to make sure they work ok first..

i did setup my rpi with minera.. it seems to be working the best so far..

it has an auto restart feature built in..
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What temp should the fans come on? So far I havent seen it spin up yet.
legendary
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This is normal, even on my test setup I have to restart them once in a while if your running multiple sticks. Not much you can do about it unless your hubs are really good. Have you turned down your voltage from stock setting since your running 600 MHz it looks like? Also try raising your memory voltage a bit and see if that helps with stability.

Im working on driver update that will auto-restart them once it detects it has stopped hashing. bfgminer is supposed to do this already, but its sick/dead/restart code is buggy.
legendary
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So I got two of these in the mail today, plugged them into usb 3 ports right off my mobo and installed the driver and bfgminer launched it and it mined for a few hours. I went back and tried to up the clock from 600 to 625 and since then have had nothing but trouble. I did not touch the voltage and even lowering the clock back as low as 480 they still won't hash for more than a few minutes. I considered they may not be getting enough power from the ports, but then it doesn't make sense why they ran for a few hours on initial install. I've tried removing and reinstalling the driver and I've also tried various pools without success. It doesn't give any specific error, on initial boot I get green light then flashing amber as bfg launches, then red flashes while it works, (green light on the whole time) then the red flashes get fewer and farther between over 1 to 3 minutes and hash rate drops to zero.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm a gpu miner, my only experience with asics is I owned a gridseed back in the day which ended in frustration and its still sitting on the shelf only successfully used for a handful of hours in its life.

You need to turn the voltage down even for stock voltage setting. Out of the box the voltage is set to around .75, which is good for up to 800 mhz. If it stops hahshing it’s because USB port doesn’t haven’t enough power. For 600 MHz .65v position is good and that will draw under an amp which will be stable for USB 3 port.

something isnt right with the driver or something..
after all night long, one of mine stopped mining.. it shows 0 hashrate.


the red light isnt flashing on that one anymore, just a solid green light.
im using 2 of these hubs.
https://www.amazon.com/Superbpag-Portable-Charger-Transfer-Samsung/dp/B013OK10YM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
with 3 on each one.

i tried on linux again using minera, and after about 3 or 4 minutes they all stop.. no more red lights.
legendary
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So I got two of these in the mail today, plugged them into usb 3 ports right off my mobo and installed the driver and bfgminer launched it and it mined for a few hours. I went back and tried to up the clock from 600 to 625 and since then have had nothing but trouble. I did not touch the voltage and even lowering the clock back as low as 480 they still won't hash for more than a few minutes. I considered they may not be getting enough power from the ports, but then it doesn't make sense why they ran for a few hours on initial install. I've tried removing and reinstalling the driver and I've also tried various pools without success. It doesn't give any specific error, on initial boot I get green light then flashing amber as bfg launches, then red flashes while it works, (green light on the whole time) then the red flashes get fewer and farther between over 1 to 3 minutes and hash rate drops to zero.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm a gpu miner, my only experience with asics is I owned a gridseed back in the day which ended in frustration and its still sitting on the shelf only successfully used for a handful of hours in its life.

You need to turn the voltage down even for stock voltage setting. Out of the box the voltage is set to around .75, which is good for up to 800 mhz. If it stops hahshing it’s because USB port doesn’t haven’t enough power. For 600 MHz .65v position is good and that will draw under an amp which will be stable for USB 3 port.
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legendary
Activity: 1736
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So I got two of these in the mail today, plugged them into usb 3 ports right off my mobo and installed the driver and bfgminer launched it and it mined for a few hours. I went back and tried to up the clock from 600 to 625 and since then have had nothing but trouble. I did not touch the voltage and even lowering the clock back as low as 480 they still won't hash for more than a few minutes. I considered they may not be getting enough power from the ports, but then it doesn't make sense why they ran for a few hours on initial install. I've tried removing and reinstalling the driver and I've also tried various pools without success. It doesn't give any specific error, on initial boot I get green light then flashing amber as bfg launches, then red flashes while it works, (green light on the whole time) then the red flashes get fewer and farther between over 1 to 3 minutes and hash rate drops to zero.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm a gpu miner, my only experience with asics is I owned a gridseed back in the day which ended in frustration and its still sitting on the shelf only successfully used for a handful of hours in its life.

i had this problem in linux..
i switched to windows and its been more stable.

are you running windows or linux?
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So I got two of these in the mail today, plugged them into usb 3 ports right off my mobo and installed the driver and bfgminer launched it and it mined for a few hours. I went back and tried to up the clock from 600 to 625 and since then have had nothing but trouble. I did not touch the voltage and even lowering the clock back as low as 480 they still won't hash for more than a few minutes. I considered they may not be getting enough power from the ports, but then it doesn't make sense why they ran for a few hours on initial install. I've tried removing and reinstalling the driver and I've also tried various pools without success. It doesn't give any specific error, on initial boot I get green light then flashing amber as bfg launches, then red flashes while it works, (green light on the whole time) then the red flashes get fewer and farther between over 1 to 3 minutes and hash rate drops to zero.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm a gpu miner, my only experience with asics is I owned a gridseed back in the day which ended in frustration and its still sitting on the shelf only successfully used for a handful of hours in its life.
legendary
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Hey is there a way to remove default pool settings from Miner? I changed pool on text pad CONF and it saved my pool,but for some reason every time i have to turn miner off it does not save pools I set and when i turn miner back on it reverts back to default pool ?

if you are running it by the bat file the pool is in there.. you have to change that.. you cant just change the conf and still use the bat
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more bad news..

one came with a busted 2R2 chip.




edit: i found 2 of them with cracks on that chip.

Where did you order from/how were they shipped?? This looks like the board got bent badly during shipment.

That’s the inductor casing, a cracked casing won’t cause any functionality issues, but that’s still concerning. Either something bad happened during shipment or heatsinks are being applied the wrong way.

Hey is there a way to remove default pool settings from Miner? I changed pool on text pad CONF and it saved my pool,but for some reason every time i have to turn miner off it does not save pools I set and when i turn miner back on it reverts back to default pool ?
legendary
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more bad news..

one came with a busted 2R2 chip.




edit: i found 2 of them with cracks on that chip.

Where did you order from/how were they shipped?? This looks like the board got bent badly during shipment.

That’s the inductor casing, a cracked casing won’t cause any functionality issues, but that’s still concerning. Either something bad happened during shipment or heatsinks are being applied the wrong way.
legendary
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more bad news..

one came with a busted 2R2 chip.




edit: i found 2 of them with cracks on that chip.
legendary
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bad news..
the included fan and heatsink causes these to need more than single space on the hub Sad






the good news is they work
the fans are sort of loud tho.. :/

legendary
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im getting my sticks today and i am trying to compile this for linux 32bit.

im running into a issue..

steps taken.

wget https://github.com/jstefanop/bfgminer/archive/bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2.tar.gz
tar zxfv bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2.tar.gz
cd bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2


when i do
./autogen.sh it says

aaron@aaron-701:~/bfgminer-bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2$ ./autogen.sh
Getting submodules...
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git


im stuck.


also why did you name the driver futurebit.c and not futurebit2.c and also why did you use the same github and not make a new one?

its going to make things really complicated since i have v1 and v2 sticks.. :/


edit i "think" i got it to compile not sure until i can test it.
i did this.

first i cloned the main branch.

git clone --branch futurebit_driver https://github.com/jstefanop/bfgminer.git

then i downloaded the v2 source
wget https://github.com/jstefanop/bfgminer/archive/bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2.tar.gz
tar zxfv bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2.tar.gz
cd bfgminer-5.4.2-futurebit2

then i copied the driver-futurebit.c from there and put it in the main branch.
cp driver-futurebit.c ~/bfgminer

and copy bwltc-commands.h
cp bwltc-commands.h ~/bfgminer

then cd into the main branch.

cd ~/bfgminer


then i ran autogen.sh
then configure CFLAGS=-O3 --enable-scrypt --enable-futurebit --disable-other-drivers
then sudo make
legendary
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warning for high sierra users - looks like there's no driver yet available

yep, was debugging this with charlie, and apple has a new security mechanism for third party drivers that block them in Mac OS 10.13. If you have upgraded to High Sierra don't expect these to work. Im working with Silicon Labs to provide an update ASAP. In the meantime use a Windows, Linux/ Rasp Pi, or Mac with 10.09-10.12.

i noticed that after allowing the driver in Security & Privacy the chip is still not working. probably because mac drivers' version is still 5?


Workaround found for 10.13...thanks charlie for debugging this with me. Fix has been posted in FAQ and below:

The workaround is to disable the SIP, installed the driver then enable the SIP.
-Shut down the Mac, start with Cmd-R depressed to boot to the Recovery Partition that will display the System Utilities.
-Open the Terminal and issue the command csrutil status and you will see SIP is enabled. To disable the SIP issue the command csrutil disable and then restart the Mac.
-You can then download and install the latest driver from Silicon Labs, you have the new USB to UART driver installed, and should work with the moonlander now
-Shut down and boot to the System Utilities and issue the command csrutil enable and restart.
-The csrutil disable and csrtil enable can only be issued from the Terminal while booted to Recovery Partition. Yes, this is a PITA but it works.

While debugging this also found a bug with bfgminer, and current binary wont work with Mac OS < 10.12. Apparently Apple changed a critical base framework from 10.12 onwards and any binaries compiled on 10.12 (which is my dev system) wont work on 10.11 and below. If you want these run on a Mac us 10.12 for out of the box support, or 10.13 with the above fix.  I can't support dozens of distributions architectures and different versions within sorry Sad
legendary
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Ordered 3 from bitmart and was told on the 6th they would ship within 10 days, then to be told 10 days later they has been a production problem slowing them down. Have been emailing them for support and promised an update last Monday but have only been getting the run around and excuses since then. I wanted to receive them before 12/3 as I'll be on holidays but that looks very unlikely now. Does anyone have any info on bitmart?

my order is still processing, think they waiting for sticks to arrive

One again please keep these threads on topic, this belongs in the order thread not in the support thread.

Bitmart was the last distributor I added, he is literally one of the last on the list and just shipped his sticks out, which wont get to SA until next week. You guys that ordered a month ago can't expect to get your sticks the same time for people that have been waiting for 3 months.
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Ordered 3 from bitmart and was told on the 6th they would ship within 10 days, then to be told 10 days later they has been a production problem slowing them down. Have been emailing them for support and promised an update last Monday but have only been getting the run around and excuses since then. I wanted to receive them before 12/3 as I'll be on holidays but that looks very unlikely now. Does anyone have any info on bitmart?

my order is still processing, think they waiting for sticks to arrive
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Ordered 3 from bitmart and was told on the 6th they would ship within 10 days, then to be told 10 days later they has been a production problem slowing them down. Have been emailing them for support and promised an update last Monday but have only been getting the run around and excuses since then. I wanted to receive them before 12/3 as I'll be on holidays but that looks very unlikely now. Does anyone have any info on bitmart?
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Anyone in the US, any hints on what hubs can be found for under $100 to work with a few of these?  Cool

I made a thread here for hubs: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2455609.new#new
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