**US** BitFury Setup Guide

[john_es]

And bitfury's accounts/RMA team has gone radio silent.  RMA was supposed to be processed days ago and now I can't even get a response.  Is this normal for them?

[Keefe]

Code:

speed:1696 noncerate[GH/s]:15.748 (0.492/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:23.570 good:110 errors:856 spi-err:0 miso-err:5 duplicates:59 jobs:60 cores:0% good:32 bad:0 off:0 (best[GH/s]:0.000) Thu Nov 21 17:07:11 2013
board-2 speed   nrate   hrate   good    errors  spi-err miso-er duplic  good    bad     off     per chip        good cores
0:      848     5.727   9.618   40      380     0       3       36      16      0       0       (0.358/chip)    0%
1:      848     10.022  13.952  70      476     0       2       23      16      0       0       (0.626/chip)    1%
pi@10-10-10-249:/run/shm$

Same results with one board... here's my latest from swapping the boards.

Try running them at a lower speed than 53. Maybe start at 49 and work up from there.

[Slander]

And bitfury's accounts/RMA team has gone radio silent.  RMA was supposed to be processed days ago and now I can't even get a response.  Is this normal for them?

Dave has sent me several emails over the last 2 days in an effort to get my cards working. Quite happy with the level of customer service from them so far.

[Slander]

think Im getting close. Looks like its my network settings. When I look at the output of one of the screens I see this

'no route to host'

[john_es]

OK - that no route to host means your gateway is probably set incorrectly in the interfaces file.  That, or the subnet mask.  I fixed it and that solved an early problem.

[Slander]

How do I find out what the settings in the interfaces file should be?

[john_es]

How do I find out what the settings in the interfaces file should be?

edit /etc/networking/interfaces

You should see something like this:

Code:

address 192.168.254.17
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.254.0
boadcast 192.168.254.255
gateway 192.168.254.1

Now, to figure out what you should have for netmask, broadcast, and gateway, you can open a command prompt in Windows and type:

Code:

ipconfig /all

Look for those values (probably have to scroll up).

[john_es]

Code:

speed:1696 noncerate[GH/s]:15.748 (0.492/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:23.570 good:110 errors:856 spi-err:0 miso-err:5 duplicates:59 jobs:60 cores:0% good:32 bad:0 off:0 (best[GH/s]:0.000) Thu Nov 21 17:07:11 2013
board-2 speed   nrate   hrate   good    errors  spi-err miso-er duplic  good    bad     off     per chip        good cores
0:      848     5.727   9.618   40      380     0       3       36      16      0       0       (0.358/chip)    0%
1:      848     10.022  13.952  70      476     0       2       23      16      0       0       (0.626/chip)    1%
pi@10-10-10-249:/run/shm$

Same results with one board... here's my latest from swapping the boards.

Try running them at a lower speed than 53. Maybe start at 49 and work up from there.

I changed it to 49.  It ramped up to 60.  Stayed there for longer than normal, hovered around 45 then back down to 18 or 20.  I am really at a loss here.

[Micky25]

which pool are you on? what setting?

[Keefe]

Code:

speed:1696 noncerate[GH/s]:15.748 (0.492/chip) hashrate[GH/s]:23.570 good:110 errors:856 spi-err:0 miso-err:5 duplicates:59 jobs:60 cores:0% good:32 bad:0 off:0 (best[GH/s]:0.000) Thu Nov 21 17:07:11 2013
board-2 speed   nrate   hrate   good    errors  spi-err miso-er duplic  good    bad     off     per chip        good cores
0:      848     5.727   9.618   40      380     0       3       36      16      0       0       (0.358/chip)    0%
1:      848     10.022  13.952  70      476     0       2       23      16      0       0       (0.626/chip)    1%
pi@10-10-10-249:/run/shm$

Same results with one board... here's my latest from swapping the boards.

Try running them at a lower speed than 53. Maybe start at 49 and work up from there.

I changed it to 49.  It ramped up to 60.  Stayed there for longer than normal, hovered around 45 then back down to 18 or 20.  I am really at a loss here.

I forgot to say to turn off autotune as well. Depending on your chainminer version, it may have ramped up the speed setting until the VRM overloaded.

And if miso errors are always coming from specific chips, turn those chips off.

Also, check the console output of chainminer and see if it's having any problems with the proxy (lots of queue messages).

[Slander]

Finally decided to grab the image file from the OP. All looked fine until I booted up, seems it doesnt like my network although all my rigs using usb miners run error free

also noticed that the new image removes the 'configure ip' and 'shutdown' from the web gui interface for bitfury, is this to be expected?

thoughts?

[Doff]

First try a different ethernet cable its possible it may be bad. Its not able to bring your Ethernet interface up which could mean a lot of things possibly even a bad Network jack on the PI. However I would try a different cable first.

Also try to see if you can bring it up manually.

Code:

 sudo ifup eth0  

You can also use Nano to edit the interface file yourself with

Code:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

And then add these lines below to the file, however change it to your Network IPs and DNS of your ISP.

This will statically assign your IP to eth0

Code:

 
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.1.10
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
dns-nameserver 208.67.220.220 208.67.222.222
       

Hope this helps.

[Slander]

Thanks Doff will try all those suggestions.

[Doff]

I just noticed I capitalized Sudo and that wont work, make sure its just lower case sudo. I edited the commands to make them correct.

Ugg I wrote that too early, sometimes I swear I need to re-read my notes.

I changed the code to make it correct my fault sorry about that. It should be correct now to bring an interface up.

[Slander]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, its working, thanks a TON

It was the dns line that did it, soon as I added that, the picks and shovels were moving!! Input from several others also very helpful. The DNS line was last puzzle piece.

Np on the caps, I did catch that

I just noticed I capitalized Sudo and that wont work, make sure its just lower case sudo. I edited the commands to make them correct.

Ugg I wrote that too early, sometimes I swear I need to re-read my notes.

I changed the code to make it correct my fault sorry about that. It should be correct now to bring an interface up.

[Doff]

Awesome, happy to help.

[Trance104]

So I have the motherboard v3 and I can't get this thing set up! I tried going to the IP address that was posted here and it does not work. I have also tried getting it to mine on bfgminer, but read in the readme that it only supports v2 MB's 

What else can I do to get this thing mining? I've had it for almost a month now with all attempts unsuccessful.

[twmz]

So I have the motherboard v3 and I can't get this thing set up! I tried going to the IP address that was posted here and it does not work. I have also tried getting it to mine on bfgminer, but read in the readme that it only supports v2 MB's 

What else can I do to get this thing mining? I've had it for almost a month now with all attempts unsuccessful.

Please be more specific on what you have tried and more importantly what you are stuck on.  "It's not working" is not something we can give a meaningful response to.

[Trance104]

I apologize. I was under the assumption that it was a plug and play. Oh wait.. That's more lies on the website as I pointed out earlier.

Anyway, I have it all hooked up, lights are on and everything, I plug in the USB cord and it installed all the drivers, then nothing... Nothing pops up and when I try to access via the IP, (wish I could check the instructions that it was supposed to come with) I get nothing. Just a page that won't load.

[twmz]

I apologize. I was under the assumption that it was a plug and play. Oh wait.. That's more lies on the website as I pointed out earlier.

Anyway, I have it all hooked up, lights are on and everything, I plug in the USB cord and it installed all the drivers, then nothing... Nothing pops up and when I try to access via the IP, (wish I could check the instructions that it was supposed to come with) I get nothing. Just a page that won't load.

Just to make sure we are on the same page...  This is not something that you plug into a computer via USB.  It is a computer.  You plug in the ethernet cable, a USB Keyboard, a monitor via HDMI and when you power it on and you will see Linux boot up.  If you don't want to attach a USB keyboard and monitor, you can ssh into it by connecting to [email protected] where xxx.xxx.xxx is the prefix of whatever your internal network is (it used to be hard coded to 192.168.1.249 but that changed with v3 so that it tries to detect your normal network IP and then just uses a .249 address on that subnet).  Alternatively you can just point your web browser at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.249 and you can do the basic configuration steps from there.