Topic: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread - page 5. (Read 71717 times)

Check out the first page, answers are in the FAQ section.
Is this possible to do on Terminal? What is the command to turn off auto-scan? I how do I discover the USB bus address?

I know you don't manufacture the device, but it seems that the VCP driver used with the MacOS ML2 install causes cgminer to not be able to detect the NewPacs. Do you think rerouting both devices to their specific corresponding USB address would avoid this error?

I'm new to this and have really been enjoying learning through this trouble shooting process. My next step is to crib from the Linux process described in the original response to your above post #1894.

ALSO, I ordered the BTC full node and 2 standard units to pair with it. I dig your ethos, man. Thanks.

mine was horizontal and after a few weeks it just broke - nothing was touching it, it was just sitting on a table with nothing around it.

You need to figure out which tty each is attached too, and make sure you specify in bfgminer/cgminer to not auto-scan (ie use the -S /dev/ttyUSB0) flag.

My driver is pretty good at filtering out the right ASIC before injecting commands to the chip, but im pretty sure gekkosciences driver starts sending commands as soon as it finds a UART chip, which is why it screws up the moonlanders. Make sure auto-scan is not enabled will keep each driver from trying to send commands to the wrong usb miner.

Ok new issue.   But this seems to be related to the cp210x.  In ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux distro, I have successfully got the moonlander mining Verge coin.  The problem I am having is when I connect a Gekkoscience newpac miner to the system.  I am not Linux tech savy enough to correct the issue.   What happens is that when moonlander is running it'll start erroring out with input/output errors.  I can't have both of them running at the same time.  Even with Moonlander connected to a USB2.0 port and running the newpac on a USB 3.0 port.

When I run the following command: dmesg | grep ttyUSB it appears the cp210x will disconnect from ttyusb0 (moonlander is on) and connect to ttyusb1 (gekko newpac is on) and alternate between the two causing bfgminer to fail on the moonlander.

Any ideas on how to keep it from alternating like this and have both running together?  I tested on my windows machine and both are able to work together without issue.  Ubuntu on the other hand no so.  When I ran the below command 'before' launching the mining software, it showed correctly moonlander device on usb0 and the gekko on usb1.  'After' running the miner, the below is what happens and I believe is the reason for the issue.  Soon I will be attaching an Arduino Uno for some electronic projects I am working on and believe this will possibly create issues with it as well.  Help is appreciated.  Just don't know how to correct.   Thanks

Just fired up my Moonlanders again for giggles!
Got 4 of 6 running real easy.  The other 2 show the green LED but cant see them.  Any clues?

Hello and thank you. I appreciate the help. I did not use that particular link. But the link I used has the same identical information. I will reflash the pi tomo and try again. But the libncurses.so.5 error. Think it has to do with a 32 bit or 64 bit issue of some kind. I tried to download both 64 and 32 bit versions of libncurses.so.5 and kept getting error the file can not be found or does not exist. I am at a loss. I am using powered hubs for everything, including my perhiphals. Know the pi does not like too much power draw. I just want to use the pi to run bfgminer. I have 13 moonlanders sitting idle....
Ahoy fellow Raspberry Chum!

I have found that my raspberry pi zeros absolutely HATE any usb 3 cable (the blue ones). They will never ever recognize, however when I got a cable from the dollar store, and connected that to the powered Usb hub, it recognized.

I used Raspbian Stretch Lite when i initially set mine up, however it would appear it has now been replaced with "Raspberry Pi OS Lite" , https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems/

I like that since it removes excess bloatware and apps that I did not need, and gave a barebones starting point for troubleshooting.

Did you follow the standard old setup instructions on the pi for the moonlander?
This is the tutorial I had followed. https://steemit.com/raspberry/@qctechno/howto-install-futurebit-moonlander-2-usb-scrypt-miner-with-raspberrypi-3

I'd recommend starting over on the Pi image, since it can get all borkled from too many different file versions.

hope it helps!

"May Jstefanop grace thee with thy holy crypto-blessings."

Still no idea what this L2F part is... But it smells like my old "electronics 101" classroom in here.

I am using the raspberry pi 4 with 1.5ghz processor and 8gb memory