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SUPPORTED DEVICES |
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Currently supported devices include the Avalon and the Butterfly Labs SC range |
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of devices. The BFL devices should come up as one of the following: |
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BAJ: BFL ASIC Jalapeño |
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BAL: BFL ASIC Little Single |
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BAS: BFL ASIC Single |
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BAM: BFL ASIC Minirig |
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GETTING STARTED WITH BUTTERFLY LABS ASICS |
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Unlike other software, cgminer uses direct USB communication instead of the |
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ancient serial USB communication to be much faster, more reliable and use a |
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lot less CPU. For this reason, setting up for mining with cgminer on these |
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devices requires different drivers. |
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WINDOWS: |
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On windows, the direct USB support requires the installation of a WinUSB |
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driver (NOT the ftdi_sio driver), and attach it to the Butterfly labs device. |
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The easiest way to do this is to use the zadig utility which will install the |
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drivers for you and then once you plug in your device you can choose the |
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"list all devices" from the "option" menu and you should be able to see the |
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device as something like: "BitFORCE SHA256 SC". Choose the install or replace |
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driver option and select WinUSB. You can either google for zadig or download |
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it from the cgminer directoy in the DOWNLOADS link above. |
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LINUX: |
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On linux, the direct USB support requires no drivers at all. However due to |
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permissions issues, you may not be able to mine directly on the devices as a |
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regular user without giving the user access to the device or by mining as |
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root (administrator). In order to give your regular user access, you can make |
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him a member of the plugdev group with the following commands: |
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sudo usermod -G plugdev -a `whoami` |
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If your distribution does not have the plugdev group you can create it with: |
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sudo groupadd plugdev |
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In order for the BFL devices to instantly be owned by the plugdev group and |
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accessible by anyone from the plugdev group you can either copy the file |
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"01-cgminer.rules" from the cgminer archive into the /etc/udev/rules.d |
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directory with the following command: |
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sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ |
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Or you can manually create a file/add to a rules.d file with following rules |
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(most users won't want to do this manually): |
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ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6014", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev" |
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ATTRS{idVendor}=="1fc9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0003", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev" |
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After this you can either manually restart udev and re-login, or more easily |
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just reboot. |
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AVALON DEVICES |
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Currently all known Avalon devices come with their own operating system and |
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a preinstalled version of cgminer as part of the flash firmware, based on the |
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most current cgminer version so no configuration should be necessary. It is |
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possible to plug a USB cable from a PC into the Avalon device and use the |
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--avalon-options copying the command as used by the internal router used by the |
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Avalon. However since the Avalon code still currently uses the old serial usb |
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interface and is being rewritten to use direct USB, it is prudent to not be |
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dependent on this command long term, assuming it will go away. |
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This code is provided entirely free of charge by the programmer in his spare |
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time so donations would be greatly appreciated. Please consider donating to the |
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address below. |
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Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> |
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