Topic: (sorted) Help! BFL Single SC (Read 1472 times)

sec guys, It's very late here and I got work in a few hours, I'm off to bed now, I have it mining on windows (multiminer) for the night, but not what I need, I will get back to you all, after work.

thanks

EDIT - back on now, I have some people that might teamviewer for me, I will say if I got anymore probs.

Did you install Linux on a computer that is dedicated to mining? Try this instead, if Linux is too much. You could probably be mining in about 10 minutes.

allright, Well I typed that in, And it went to the command line with no message or error.

Well I installed pclinuxos as I needed something more point and click to aid my transition from windows.

So I guess my next question is, If I install a "normal" distro (ubuntu) then teamviewer, would anyone get me running?

I cant follow guides, As soon as it says write your config file i'm lost lol

I've never seen anyone use that Linux for mining. I'm not saying you shouldn't or that it's not possible...just that I've never seen it. The most common Linux distros I see used here are Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I use those, Crunchbang, and Mint. They're all related to Ubuntu.

My guess is that PClinuxOS doesn't have a "sudo" group. I don't have experience with Linux versions that don't have this feature, so the following advise may be shaky.You can try running the commands without "sudo", or running the commands as root. If you run the commands as root, you'll need to adjust the commands, i.e.,

...where username is the name of the user that will be mining (usually not "root")

-bash: sudo: command not found

EDIT pclinuxos 32bit - I dont know how to tell the version.

Which version of Linux?

What happens after you enter this?

Hiya, I'm on linux, I get sudo command not found on everything I type?

EDIT - I rebooted to root, tried all the commands, I just get command not found

Did you:

WINDOWS:
On windows, the direct USB support requires the installation of a WinUSB
driver (NOT the ftdi_sio driver), and attach it to your devices.
The easiest way to do this is to use the zadig utility which will install the
drivers for you and then once you plug in your device you can choose the
"list all devices" from the "option" menu and you should be able to see the
device as something like: "BitFORCE SHA256 SC". Choose the install or replace
driver option and select WinUSB. You can either google for zadig or download
it from the cgminer directoy in the DOWNLOADS link above.

LINUX:
On linux, the direct USB support requires no drivers at all. However due to
permissions issues, you may not be able to mine directly on the devices as a
regular user without giving the user access to the device or by mining as
root (administrator). In order to give your regular user access, you can make
him a member of the plugdev group with the following commands:

 sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami`

If your distribution does not have the plugdev group you can create it with:

 sudo groupadd plugdev

In order for the BFL devices to instantly be owned by the plugdev group and
accessible by anyone from the plugdev group you can copy the file
"01-cgminer.rules" from the cgminer archive into the /etc/udev/rules.d
directory with the following command:

 sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

After this you can either manually restart udev and re-login, or more easily
just reboot.

Hiya,

Not sure if this is the right place to post.

Is there anyone online right now that can team viewer my pc to get my sc running. Listing USB command detects device but not found in cgminer.

Any help much appreciated.

PM me.


EDIT thanks all, I am now sorted!