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newbie
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September 30, 2015, 08:15:59 AM
#9
hey, thank you for you reply, i installed your firmware on sdcard, it started, i configured it but when i try to use cgminner it crashed, when i write cgminner -n it show 8 devices detected , none of it was known...
newbie
Activity: 30
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September 28, 2015, 04:55:37 AM
#8
we don't know what miner really is...
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1000
September 10, 2015, 05:00:40 AM
#7
Looks more like one of the Silverfish Scrypt miners to me, but the pics aren't super clear and I never bothered buying any of the Zeus stuff (it was overpriced and BAD efficiency) or the Silverfish (ditto) - IIRC neither was much more efficient than the Gridseed GC3355 based junk I wanted to replace....



If silverfish he needs to use the windows program.   It does detect it and loads a valid license letting it run.  It called home to make sure it was still valid.

But since they quit making it they did make a patch to make silverfish still work.  So you might need to do this.

Let us know what miner.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
September 10, 2015, 03:35:03 AM
#6
Looks more like one of the Silverfish Scrypt miners to me, but the pics aren't super clear and I never bothered buying any of the Zeus stuff (it was overpriced and BAD efficiency) or the Silverfish (ditto) - IIRC neither was much more efficient than the Gridseed GC3355 based junk I wanted to replace....

newbie
Activity: 30
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September 10, 2015, 03:02:45 AM
#5
An update:
Maybe this will give you a clue:
Before Minera, we were using Minepeon. We were able to access it via https://192.168.1.11 (login: minepeon password: peon) but we could not get our miner up and running because both bgfminer and cgminer were unable to find devices.
The index page of https://192.168.1.11 (Minepeon) was displaying "No devices running".
This is what we get after login to minepeon via ssh:
minepeon / # dmesg | tail
Code:
 [    5.640462] pl2303 1-1.3.1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[    5.657400] usb 1-1.3.1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[    5.657588] pl2303 1-1.3.2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[    5.672909] usb 1-1.3.2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[    5.673098] pl2303 1-1.3.3:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[    5.685946] usb 1-1.3.3: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB3
[    6.189869] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[    6.450010] systemd-journald[69]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[    7.084438] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
// dmesg command displays 4 USBs: ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2, ttyUSB3.
Code:
minepeon /dev # lsusb
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 058f:6254 Alcor Micro Corp. USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
// lsusb command displays 4 devices, including device 004, 006, 007 and 008.
Code:
minepeon /dev # ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Sep  3 18:25 /dev/ttyUSB0
minepeon /dev # ls -l /dev/ttyUSB1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 188, 1 Sep  3 18:25 /dev/ttyUSB1
minepeon /dev # ls -l /dev/ttyUSB2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 188, 2 Sep  3 18:26 /dev/ttyUSB2
minepeon /dev # ls -l /dev/ttyUSB3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 188, 3 Sep  3 18:26 /dev/ttyUSB3
minepeon /dev # ls -l /dev/ttyUSB4
// ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* command shows that all 4 USBs are visible (device ID's 004, 006, 007 and 008 in /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, /dev/ttyUSB2 and /dev/ttyUSB3)
 
The problem is that both bfgminer and cgminer were unable to find devices:
Minepeon - bfgminer
Code:
 bfgminer version 3.10.0 - Started: [2015-09-03 18:23:08] - [  0 days 00:03:58]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options                                                [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to eu.stratum.xxxxxxxx.com  diff 8 with stratum as user xxxxx.worker1
 Block: ...f7b48b24 #372863  Diff:54.3G (388.4Ph/s)  Started: [18:25:52]
 ST:2  F:0  NB:3  AS:0  BW:[ 72/  6 B/s]  E:0.00  I: 0.00 BTC/hr  BS:0
 0            |   0.0/  0.0/  0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NO DEVICES FOUND: Press 'M' and '+' to add
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M
(no devices)
[Plus] Add device(s)  [Enter] Close device manager
+
Enter "auto", "all", or a serial port to probe for mining devices.
Prefix by a driver name and colon to only probe a specific driver.
For example: erupter:/dev/ttyUSB39
Enter target:erupter:/dev/ttyUSB1
We have tried auto, all, erupter:/dev/ttyUSB1, /dev/ttyUSB1 without any luck.
(no devices)
[Plus] Add device(s)  [Enter] Close device manager
No new devices found
 
Same for cgminer:
Minepeon - cgminer
 cgminer version 4.0.1 - Started: [2015-09-03 18:10:37]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 1  LW: 255  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu.stratum.xxxxxxxx.com   diff 8 with stratum as user xxxxx.worker1
 Block: 109ede25...  Diff:54.3G  Started: [18:10:37]  Best share: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB device management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hotplug interval:5
0 USB devices, 0 enabled, 0 disabled, 0 zombie
[S]ummary of device information
S
Select an option or any other key to return
Bus 1 Device 8 ID: 067b:2303 Prolific Technology Inc.  USB-Serial Controller D inactive
Bus 1 Device 7 ID: 067b:2303 Prolific Technology Inc.  USB-Serial Controller D inactive
Bus 1 Device 6 ID: 067b:2303 Prolific Technology Inc.  USB-Serial Controller D inactive
Bus 1 Device 4 ID: 067b:2303 Prolific Technology Inc.  USB-Serial Controller D inactive
4 total known USB devices
Hotplug interval:5
0 USB devices, 0 enabled, 0 disabled, 0 zombie
We have tried to manually add devices for both bfgminer and cgminer but without any luck. Maybe it's something to do with the drivers for USB-Serial Controller as it's status is inactive and I can confirm that all cables are plugged in to motherboard etc:
Bus 1 Device 8 ID: 067b:2303 Prolific Technology Inc.  USB-Serial Controller D inactive

Any advice?
Thanks,
Dawid
legendary
Activity: 1612
Merit: 1608
精神分析的爸
September 09, 2015, 11:42:12 AM
#4
Hi,

d57heinz is certainly right, this looks a lot like a dragon 30Mh/s scrypt miner with B2 chips.
The 4 blades of the miner seem to be recognized properly in your system (/dev/ttyUSB0-3) and its probably only a matter of letting it hash against a scrypt pool like litecoinpool.org as d57heinz proposed.

HTH
legendary
Activity: 1453
Merit: 1011
Bitcoin Talks Bullshit Walks
September 09, 2015, 09:26:01 AM
#3
also in looking further through your logs.. I see your are trying to mine on slush pool
ERROR - 2015-09-09 14:09:30 --> stdClass::__set_state(array(
   'STATUS' =>
  array (
    0 =>
    stdClass::__set_state(array(
       'STATUS' => 'S',
       'When' => 1441800570,
       'Code' => 55,
       'Msg' => 'Added pool \'stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333\'',
       'Description' => 'cgminer 4.3.5-scrypt.2',
    )),

If that is indeed a scrypt miner you cannot mine on slush pool.. Try litecoinpool.org for your first pool. 

Get it mining litecoin first before you fight mining on ghash multipool..

Best Regards
d57heinz
legendary
Activity: 1453
Merit: 1011
Bitcoin Talks Bullshit Walks
September 09, 2015, 09:03:43 AM
#2
hello,

need a bit more info on your miner.. Is that a zues miner?  according to the logs its appears that minera is trying to load the zues drivers. Also at a frequency im not familiar with on those miners.. If its the newer zues then it would be around 240 mhz  but if its the older models then its somewhere starting at around 280 mhz if i recall correctly and i think my zues thunder ran at 328 mhz. That miner looks to be an a2 or something of that nature.  Let me know what your working with.
Check this page out since i believe its an a2 model.. maybe is that minera doesnt support that machine  http://zoomhash.com/pages/a2-and-mini-a2-software-setup

Best Regards
d57heinz
newbie
Activity: 30
Merit: 0
September 09, 2015, 07:55:07 AM
#1
http://i58.tinypic.com/2u8a492.jpg
hey,
i have this minning devices it should have 30 mh , it is definitely from china, it have minera (raspbery pi) and it don't detect any device connected (cgminer and all included soft)
here is lsusb and list of /dev
Code:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 058f:6254 Alcor Micro Corp. USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
and
/dev
http://i58.tinypic.com/23u67eq.jpg
logs minera:
http://pastebin.com/yXSRmMds
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