**US** BitFury Setup Guide

[-Redacted-]

Dave has made download copies available of the images.  See near the bottom of the OP.  You may end up needing to reformat the SD card before you can successfully write the image.

rPI Images
V1:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/poet3r86jf7n6v4/rPi_V1.img

[cet]

the biggest problem I saw with autotune was that when a chip was generating MISO errors the errors propagated to all of the other chips on the m-board.  Once I located that single chip and turned it off then auto tune worked great. All of my boards are hashing at or above 25gh/s.

/cet

[mwk13]

Thank you for that link to the rpi img file.
Now i just need to wait a few more hours for it to download over my "high-speed" internet connection...

[gmannn]

Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable?  How difficult would it be to set up?

[jddebug]

Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable?  How difficult would it be to set up?

I have some dlink adapters. I'd really like to be able to have the wifi option too.

[mdbssm]

Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable?  How difficult would it be to set up?

Both of my rigs are being fed via a 5 port switch attached to a TP-Link WR700N. ~$30 from Newegg. Run it in 'client' mode and it acts as a wifi bridge.

[goxed]

Has anyone mined via wireless instead of ethernet cable?  How difficult would it be to set up?

The rPI has a very old ARM11 cpu which is being taxed already by the stratum proxy process. It would be best to delegate wifi using an external device.

[zurg]

Well, rebooted my Pi today and

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk9v8hcxwvvp3rc/2013-09-20%2007.16.34.jpg

Does that mean reload the SD card?


Whats the proper way to reload the card?

[BenTuras]

Well, rebooted my Pi today and

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk9v8hcxwvvp3rc/2013-09-20%2007.16.34.jpg

Does that mean reload the SD card?


Whats the proper way to reload the card?

Yes, your sd card has read errors. You might even want to get a new sd card.
Which image to use depends on your M-board: https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=288109.0
How to write the image to your sd card depends on your OS: http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10

[zurg]

Well, rebooted my Pi today and

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rk9v8hcxwvvp3rc/2013-09-20%2007.16.34.jpg

Does that mean reload the SD card?


Whats the proper way to reload the card?

Yes, your sd card has read errors. You might even want to get a new sd card.
Which image to use depends on your M-board: https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=288109.0
How to write the image to your sd card depends on your OS: http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10

Thanks.
Ugh, this is just great, lol
Good thing I downloaded the image a few days ago.
Bad thing... I didn't bring my laptop today to have the fun switching IP range from 192.168.1.x to 192.168.254.x
my HDMI cable is like 1ft, lol but at least I have an HDMI monitor here at work.
Microcenter doesn't open until 10am (never understood that)
I got no Linux machines at work. , although I did find Win32DiskImager and reflashing the image as I type.

[-Redacted-]

Get an HDMI to DVI connector/adapter and you can use nearly any modern monitor.  Get a additional DVI to VGA connector and you can use any monitor - they usually bundle this last one with graphics cards....

[zurg]

Ok, I think my SD card is messed up now.
I reloaded the image and booted Pi up, a bunch of errors etc.

Now it's asking me for root password for maintenance
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vd7trmfz1kc4h7y/2013-09-20%2008.12.39.jpg

[-Redacted-]

Did you reformat the card before writing the image to it?

[zurg]

Did you reformat the card before writing the image to it?

Ugh, no, I assumed that writing an image would take care of that.
Retrying...

[BenTuras]

Ok, I think my SD card is messed up now.
I reloaded the image and booted Pi up, a bunch of errors etc.

Now it's asking me for root password for maintenance
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vd7trmfz1kc4h7y/2013-09-20%2008.12.39.jpg

Did you try the password ... root ?

[zurg]

Ok, I think my SD card is messed up now.
I reloaded the image and booted Pi up, a bunch of errors etc.

Now it's asking me for root password for maintenance
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vd7trmfz1kc4h7y/2013-09-20%2008.12.39.jpg

Did you try the password ... root ?

Nah.., I am a Linux n00b... reformated the card and reflashing it now.
Will try that if it comes back bad again.

[zurg]

Win32DiskImager:
For anyone that needs to flash the SD card under Windows (tested on Win7 64-bit)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/latest/download

[zurg]

Thank you guys!!!
Reformated the card and I am back mining already.

The new image actually lets you put the full IP address you're using unlike the original that was letting me enter only the last part.
The only thing I had to do is edit interfaces to change Subnet and Gateway.

Boom!

Freaked me out. lol

[zurg]

Get an HDMI to DVI connector/adapter and you can use nearly any modern monitor.  Get a additional DVI to VGA connector and you can use any monitor - they usually bundle this last one with graphics cards....

Quit giving me ideas, lol.
But yeah, good point. I do have a Digital KVM here that I could use..
hmm, ohh, just found a powered hdmi to vga converter Yay!

[Trongersoll]

Get an HDMI to DVI connector/adapter and you can use nearly any modern monitor.  Get a additional DVI to VGA connector and you can use any monitor - they usually bundle this last one with graphics cards....

Be careful here. DVI supports both digital and analog(vga).  if you just buy the cheap connector adapters, although they plug in, they won't convert the digital signals to analog. At least that is what the tech guys at MicroCenter convinced me was true. Spend the $40 - $50 fo a proper HDMI to VGA converter.

Unless Redacted has actually had this work, in which case the people at MicroCenter were full of stoko.