Using a hardware miner

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• FabulousPanda

  December 2013 edited December 2013

  Have you installed the drivers here:

  http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

  
  

  If so you can put 

  -S all

  in fpga/asic window miner settings panel Devices text field, apply then start the miner

  
  

  Otherwise use the cgminer view and just click start - it should pick the device up if it's plugged in and powered on.

  
  

  I recommend installing the drivers and using bfgminer (which the FPGA/ASIC window uses) as the developer worked with BFL

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• Navatar

  December 2013

  Installed the drivers.

  
  

  Tried cgminer. Got this error repeatedly:

   [2013-12-13 20:46:08] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 243.248572

   [2013-12-13 20:46:09] LONGPOLL from pool 1 requested work restart

   [2013-12-13 20:46:06] LONGPOLL from pool 1 requested work restart                    

   [2013-12-13 20:46:08] BitForceSC detect (20:9) failed to initialise (incorrect device?)                    

   [2013-12-13 20:46:08] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 243.248572                    

   [2013-12-13 20:46:09] LONGPOLL from pool 1 requested work restart      

  
  

  Did the "-S all" in fpga/asic miner and started the miner and nothing happened.

  
  

  Tried using bfgminer.  Displays this and then nothing happens:

   [2013-12-13 20:47:13] Started bfgminer 3.8.1

  
  

   [2013-12-13 20:47:13] Loaded configuration file /Users/myname/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf

  
  

  any ideas?

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• FabulousPanda

  December 2013

  If you install the drivers cgminer won't recognise the device and vice versa - peculiar that nothing comes out of the logs with FPGA/ASIC miner with

  -S all

  (the s must be capitalised) but you do get some output from bfgminer window which has the same backend. You can use -S all with bfgminer window too and would need to for it to see the device.

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  December 2013

  Yeah, I don't know what the deal is. I just tried Asteroid and it discovered it right away after telling it to disable the USB drivers:

  
  

  

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• FabulousPanda

  December 2013

  Ah, it must have been the default drivers in 10.9 causing the problem. cgminer will work for you now in MacMiner too. I'll look in to whether anyone else might be having the problem with bfgminer on 10.9, I know a few people aren't though.

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