Josh gave me his number and told me to call him if I needed any help with the miner. I've called and he said he'd get a video up on friday of how to assemble, obviously it didn't happen. He apologized for what he said was obviously unacceptable.
I just sent him the following text:
Hey man, sorry to keep bothering you. Especially on a Saturday as I know you guys are working through the weekend.
When I turn on the pi it starts looking for boards via some address but fails to find then. Then when I try to do killall cgminer it says no process killed like it didn't even run.
I don't know if this is a connection issue or a firmware issue. But there needs to be more communication on this. Apologizing is all well and good, but meaningless if not backed up with action.
Even if you guys can shoot a quick tutorial via your phones it would go a long way toward regaining people's trust.
Will update if I get a response. I'd call but with my bronchitis when I speak I go into terrible coughing fits. and I really don't want to have this conversation over a relay service
type cgminer -DT it will check across cards and give you the active cores per card. if you use putty to interface you can scroll through the different cards.
there will be alot of info that comes up but all your interested in is something that says 8 chipx 255 active cores or similar. not the bit that says chip 1-8 32 active cores, should be right at the bottom of the paragraphs. if your cards register 256 cores i believe they all working right.
this will be tepeated 3-5x depending how many cards you have.
the killall cgminer and it saying no process killed is because its not running on boot up to make it run type cgminer
input your pool details and away it goes.
When I type cgminer -dt it then says command line options set a device that doesn't exist.
When I type cgminer it says :
checking board 2...
failed to write to fdesc -1: Bad file descriptor
No A1 Chip-Chain detected
SPI '/dev/spidev0.0' :mode 1, bits 8, speed 2000000
This repeats through cards 3 and 4 then says:
All devices disabled cannot mine.
when I putty in and do it it flashes up on the screen quicker that I can read it then goes away, can't scroll to it at all. so I did a quick print screen and caught this:
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