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Quote from: QuintLeo on July 29, 2017, 09:43:53 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 26, 2017, 04:07:26 AM

yes, i do that for testing but in fact Gen Tarkin said that we can't solomine with the asic because some wallets dont support stratum. Cry

. I never solo mine with my KNC Titan...

Thanks

Might be a limitation of the KNC software to not allow getwork, but the Innosilicon A2 units CAN be used to solo mine with via getwork so it's not an inherent "ASIC" limitation.

You COULD also run a "stratum" proxy to work around the lack of wallet support for stratum, I would think.

I wouldn't try it on Litecoin though - way too long to even have a PRAYER at mining a block solo with the current network hashrate.
Try something smaller like DGB or GAME might work, but those have also had their network hashrate grow a LOT over the last 3 months or so.

Sorry for the late answer.
Ok. In fact you say that the asic can solo mine but i must run a stratum proxy. But i don't know how to do that. Of course i would try with a small altcoin. Can you explain me how to run a stratum proxy ? Could you try to solomine ? I hope again Wink

the Knc Titan is a very good asic. Thanks

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Quote from: TXSteve on July 30, 2017, 08:53:57 PM

Quote from: GenTarkin on July 30, 2017, 05:45:40 AM

Well, good news ....
After about a thousand or so i2cget commands and referring to Ericsson docs and to the other working cubes and issuing a hundred or so i2cset commands ... I was able to get all the non working DCDC's up and running again. The dies are hashing away fine once again =)
KNC definitely has some custom configuration of each DCDC going on =-P

I wonder if any registers can be tweaked in the DCDC's for further power effeciency .. I mean these things have hundreds of configurable settings lol! its nuts.

nice job, but I think maybe we need to get you working on some newer tech

haha, well I do have an L3+ headin my way late september. Im sure by then it will be worthless but w/e ... maybe Ill poke around on it =-)

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Quote from: GenTarkin on July 30, 2017, 05:45:40 AM

Well, good news ....
After about a thousand or so i2cget commands and referring to Ericsson docs and to the other working cubes and issuing a hundred or so i2cset commands ... I was able to get all the non working DCDC's up and running again. The dies are hashing away fine once again =)
KNC definitely has some custom configuration of each DCDC going on =-P

I wonder if any registers can be tweaked in the DCDC's for further power effeciency .. I mean these things have hundreds of configurable settings lol! its nuts.

nice job, but I think maybe we need to get you working on some newer tech

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Well, good news ....
After about a thousand or so i2cget commands and referring to Ericsson docs and to the other working cubes and issuing a hundred or so i2cset commands ... I was able to get all the non working DCDC's up and running again. The dies are hashing away fine once again =)
KNC definitely has some custom configuration of each DCDC going on =-P

I wonder if any registers can be tweaked in the DCDC's for further power effeciency .. I mean these things have hundreds of configurable settings lol! its nuts.

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Quote from: nanotec on July 26, 2017, 04:07:26 AM

yes, i do that for testing but in fact Gen Tarkin said that we can't solomine with the asic because some wallets dont support stratum. Cry

. I never solo mine with my KNC Titan...

Thanks

Might be a limitation of the KNC software to not allow getwork, but the Innosilicon A2 units CAN be used to solo mine with via getwork so it's not an inherent "ASIC" limitation.

You COULD also run a "stratum" proxy to work around the lack of wallet support for stratum, I would think.

I wouldn't try it on Litecoin though - way too long to even have a PRAYER at mining a block solo with the current network hashrate.
Try something smaller like DGB or GAME might work, but those have also had their network hashrate grow a LOT over the last 3 months or so.

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Quote from: TXSteve on July 29, 2017, 07:03:58 PM

Quote from: GenTarkin on July 28, 2017, 11:18:05 PM

Well Ive managed to brick one cube and another die on another cube just to be sure .... by running one simple command =(

Dont ever run "i2cdump -y CHANNEL 0x10-0x17"

Ive managed to put my DCDC's in braindead mode or worse ... fry the ASIC... Im still trying to figure out if the damage done is reversable =*(

If anyone else has ran into this and know the fix.... please share =)

Maybe my next firmware will have this "feature" lol jk =P

try "i2cdump -y CHANNEL 0x10-0x17 -undo"

seriously though, unplug it, leave it sit for a day or 2 then try again -- silly Titans, this actually works quite often

haha nice one =P ... nope already tried that. Something about running that command alters the configuration of the DCDC's in a way that makes them not work anymore OR worse... kills the die =( .... Im currently working w/ ericsson to see if theres any key configuration of the DCDCs that may have been wiped out somehow that perhaps can be restored and get them working again.
They told me about a PMBus-USB adapter that can be used w/ their free software suite to see the configuration of the DCDC's on a board .... but ... .cant seem to find their adapter anywhere.. I wonder if such adapter is universal or product specific... no idea.

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Quote from: GenTarkin on July 28, 2017, 11:18:05 PM

Well Ive managed to brick one cube and another die on another cube just to be sure .... by running one simple command =(

Dont ever run "i2cdump -y CHANNEL 0x10-0x17"

Ive managed to put my DCDC's in braindead mode or worse ... fry the ASIC... Im still trying to figure out if the damage done is reversable =*(

If anyone else has ran into this and know the fix.... please share =)

Maybe my next firmware will have this "feature" lol jk =P

try "i2cdump -y CHANNEL 0x10-0x17 -undo"

seriously though, unplug it, leave it sit for a day or 2 then try again -- silly Titans, this actually works quite often

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Well Ive managed to brick one cube and another die on another cube just to be sure .... by running one simple command =(

Dont ever run "i2cdump -y CHANNEL 0x10-0x17"

Ive managed to put my DCDC's in braindead mode or worse ... fry the ASIC... Im still trying to figure out if the damage done is reversable =*(

If anyone else has ran into this and know the fix.... please share =)

Maybe my next firmware will have this "feature" lol jk =P

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Quote from: GenTarkin on July 25, 2017, 07:54:52 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 04:52:43 PM

Quote from: lightfoot on July 25, 2017, 03:04:56 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 02:52:32 PM

i try again and again but it works not.
This is my manual conf in the KNC titan : http://192.x.x.x with my username and the password who are in mine conf wallet of the altcoin. With cgminer on my computer it works, no problem i can solo mine but bfgminer of the ASIC don't run. I forget probably something in the manual conf but what ? If someone solomine with this asic, could you watch me your config ? Thanks and sorry because it's probably nothing but i don' t now what...

You're using :8332 on that URL, right? As I said, I'll take a look at this next week when I get back from DefCon, not too interested in logging into my central network systems from a very compromised city....

C

Why 8332 ?i am using the rpcport of the conf wallet. it's not the same with different altcoin.
Ok i will waiting no ptoblem and thanks for your help !

you cant solomine w/ asics straight to your wallet ... most wallets dont support stratum natively, only getwork

Hi,

Ok.

. It' so cool to solomine...

Thanks for your answer.

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Quote from: LongAndShort on July 25, 2017, 09:13:04 PM

Quote from: lightfoot on July 25, 2017, 03:04:56 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 02:52:32 PM

i try again and again but it works not.
This is my manual conf in the KNC titan : http://192.x.x.x with my username and the password who are in mine conf wallet of the altcoin. With cgminer on my computer it works, no problem i can solo mine but bfgminer of the ASIC don't run. I forget probably something in the manual conf but what ? If someone solomine with this asic, could you watch me your config ? Thanks and sorry because it's probably nothing but i don' t now what...

You're using :8332 on that URL, right? As I said, I'll take a look at this next week when I get back from DefCon, not too interested in logging into my central network systems from a very compromised city....

C

When you do test it, i suggest you to test it on a dead coin that will show you getting blocks.

Have fun out there, wish i could come see your talks.

yes, i do that for testing but in fact Gen Tarkin said that we can't solomine with the asic because some wallets dont support stratum. Cry

. I never solo mine with my KNC Titan...

Thanks

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Quote from: lightfoot on July 25, 2017, 03:04:56 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 02:52:32 PM

i try again and again but it works not.
This is my manual conf in the KNC titan : http://192.x.x.x with my username and the password who are in mine conf wallet of the altcoin. With cgminer on my computer it works, no problem i can solo mine but bfgminer of the ASIC don't run. I forget probably something in the manual conf but what ? If someone solomine with this asic, could you watch me your config ? Thanks and sorry because it's probably nothing but i don' t now what...

You're using :8332 on that URL, right? As I said, I'll take a look at this next week when I get back from DefCon, not too interested in logging into my central network systems from a very compromised city....

C

When you do test it, i suggest you to test it on a dead coin that will show you getting blocks.

Have fun out there, wish i could come see your talks.

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Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 04:52:43 PM

Quote from: lightfoot on July 25, 2017, 03:04:56 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 02:52:32 PM

i try again and again but it works not.
This is my manual conf in the KNC titan : http://192.x.x.x with my username and the password who are in mine conf wallet of the altcoin. With cgminer on my computer it works, no problem i can solo mine but bfgminer of the ASIC don't run. I forget probably something in the manual conf but what ? If someone solomine with this asic, could you watch me your config ? Thanks and sorry because it's probably nothing but i don' t now what...

You're using :8332 on that URL, right? As I said, I'll take a look at this next week when I get back from DefCon, not too interested in logging into my central network systems from a very compromised city....

C

Why 8332 ?i am using the rpcport of the conf wallet. it's not the same with different altcoin.
Ok i will waiting no ptoblem and thanks for your help !

you cant solomine w/ asics straight to your wallet ... most wallets dont support stratum natively, only getwork

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Quote from: lightfoot on July 24, 2017, 02:17:30 PM

And yet they are still profitable. Best run for miner hw i have seen.

Quote from: NotFuzzyWarm on July 24, 2017, 01:48:14 PM

You DO know that the KnC Titan miners have been out of production for a few years and KnC itself imploded right?

I can say the same thing about my Innosilicon A2 miners, and have the added upside that they didn't have severe issues with "mining cores dying" like the Titan did, nor worries about overstressed OUT OF SPEC usage of the power connectors that sometimes led to major failures and rare fires....

Titans DID a offer a little better efficiency - WHEN they worked.

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Quote from: lightfoot on July 25, 2017, 03:04:56 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 02:52:32 PM

i try again and again but it works not.
This is my manual conf in the KNC titan : http://192.x.x.x with my username and the password who are in mine conf wallet of the altcoin. With cgminer on my computer it works, no problem i can solo mine but bfgminer of the ASIC don't run. I forget probably something in the manual conf but what ? If someone solomine with this asic, could you watch me your config ? Thanks and sorry because it's probably nothing but i don' t now what...

You're using :8332 on that URL, right? As I said, I'll take a look at this next week when I get back from DefCon, not too interested in logging into my central network systems from a very compromised city....

C

Why 8332 ?i am using the rpcport of the conf wallet. it's not the same with different altcoin.
Ok i will waiting no ptoblem and thanks for your help !

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I fix broken miners. And make holes in teeth :-)

Quote from: nanotec on July 25, 2017, 02:52:32 PM

i try again and again but it works not.
This is my manual conf in the KNC titan : http://192.x.x.x with my username and the password who are in mine conf wallet of the altcoin. With cgminer on my computer it works, no problem i can solo mine but bfgminer of the ASIC don't run. I forget probably something in the manual conf but what ? If someone solomine with this asic, could you watch me your config ? Thanks and sorry because it's probably nothing but i don' t now what...

You're using :8332 on that URL, right? As I said, I'll take a look at this next week when I get back from DefCon, not too interested in logging into my central network systems from a very compromised city....

C

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And just HOW does that relate to this thread about KnC miners?

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Quote from: LongAndShort on July 25, 2017, 05:21:08 AM

Quote from: lightfoot on July 24, 2017, 12:08:46 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 24, 2017, 11:50:13 AM

Quote from: LongAndShort on July 24, 2017, 03:41:15 AM

Quote from: nanotec on July 23, 2017, 01:59:30 PM

Hi,

Hot to solo mine with the knc titan ? Have you an example ? I try but it don't work. I forget something but what ?

Thanks

You cant mine directly to a coin client with the titan, you need to make some sort of a pool. Alternatively you can use solo.nicehash.com or some other pool who offers solo mining.

Thanks for your answer. Is it hard to make my own pool ? It's so esay with a graphic card to solo mine, i don't understand why it's so hard with an asic. Undecided

It's not the ASIC per se, you just have to log into the Rpi (or BBB if you are running my more cool code) and set up bfgminer.conf manually. You know how to do it on GPUs, do the same thing at the command line and fire it up.

It's just bfgminer.

C

Have you ever tried it? I don't believe it works man.

i try again and again but it works not.
This is my manual conf in the KNC titan : http://192.x.x.x with my username and the password who are in mine conf wallet of the altcoin. With cgminer on my computer it works, no problem i can solo mine but bfgminer of the ASIC don't run. I forget probably something in the manual conf but what ? If someone solomine with this asic, could you watch me your config ? Thanks and sorry because it's probably nothing but i don' t now what...

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I fix broken miners. And make holes in teeth :-)

I'll give it a shot when I get back to the office after Defcon (speaking of which I am bringing the bag of tricks and might be giving a talk at the Hardware Hacking Village on how to hack miners). It's possible KNC didn't compile in support for solo mining on the Pi version, but I believe I included it on the BeagleBone version.

Not too big a deal; I run a full Litecoin node alongside a bitcoin node so it should be simple to test.

C

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Quote from: lightfoot on July 24, 2017, 12:08:46 PM

Quote from: nanotec on July 24, 2017, 11:50:13 AM

Quote from: LongAndShort on July 24, 2017, 03:41:15 AM

Quote from: nanotec on July 23, 2017, 01:59:30 PM

Hi,

Hot to solo mine with the knc titan ? Have you an example ? I try but it don't work. I forget something but what ?

Thanks

You cant mine directly to a coin client with the titan, you need to make some sort of a pool. Alternatively you can use solo.nicehash.com or some other pool who offers solo mining.

Thanks for your answer. Is it hard to make my own pool ? It's so esay with a graphic card to solo mine, i don't understand why it's so hard with an asic. Undecided

It's not the ASIC per se, you just have to log into the Rpi (or BBB if you are running my more cool code) and set up bfgminer.conf manually. You know how to do it on GPUs, do the same thing at the command line and fire it up.

It's just bfgminer.

C

Have you ever tried it? I don't believe it works man.

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Quote from: dreamer81 on July 24, 2017, 01:38:19 PM

What algorithm does your miner support? I'm looking for asic miner that can hash X11 and cryptonight. Is this possible with your miner hw?

Also do you deliver to Denmark ?

KNC died a while back, though someone bought out the name and probably some of their assets and has announced plans to build future miners under the KNC name (BAD idea IMO, KNC has a HORRIBLE rep in the cryptomining field, probably the WORST rep of any company that ever managed to deliver hardware at all).

No ASIC-based miner supports the Cryptonight algo (I won't be shocked if SOMEONE eventually comes up with one).

X11, right now, your options are Baikal, IBeLink, Bitmain, and Innosilicon - but the latter 3 are "sold out" at this time and Baikal has spent a lot of the last few months also sold out AND has a horrible interface to try to order their miners (the miners themselves seem to be rock-solid reliable though once folks manage to get ahold of them).

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