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Thanks! 500MMC tip on its way to you.I think its fully functional and useful enough now to recommend to our users.Thinking of some future potential improvements -1. Advising user if MMC address not configured and refusing to start mining.2. Prompting for Wifi network selection / password (I guess difficult to auto configure wifi hardware)3. GPU mining (I guess difficult to auto configure gpu drivers)4. Not sure if it's safe to remove the USB after starting mining - seems to work ok on one machine, not on another. Would be useful for booting up a room full of PCs from a single USB drive. Maybe copying OS to RAM disk or similar.
AV=1 is taken from config file, just change it to 0 for auto-tuning. I will make it default in next release.
For AES-NI part, I don't get it. Script is looking for aes flags in /proc/cpuinfo. Can you check this file if it contains 'aes' flag?
Quote from: FreeTrade on January 29, 2014, 10:05:58 amExiting because of faulty parameters for me - seems like memory size is being sent as 6912 . . . not divisible by 1024 and YAM rejects it.What is the total amount of memory?
Exiting because of faulty parameters for me - seems like memory size is being sent as 6912 . . . not divisible by 1024 and YAM rejects it.
Quote from: h0g0f0g0 on January 28, 2014, 10:03:44 amHmm strange on another box i can run 8 threads with 1gig of memory. So I'm going to tweak the auto mode to take care of the cpu threads at maxed memory size.Sounds like a good plan - the new 'm' parameter is the max amount of memory to use, btw, not per thread.
Hmm strange on another box i can run 8 threads with 1gig of memory. So I'm going to tweak the auto mode to take care of the cpu threads at maxed memory size.
I haven't tried it out yet, so pardon my ignorance. I have a question/request:Is it possible to create a "stealth USB stick" ? I'm thinking of a room mate who has a Windows PC. So he is away, and his/her PC is idling. I insert a "stealth USB stick", it creates a virtual machine and starts mining MMC. Then, when he/she needs the PC back, just pull out the stealth USB stick.Possible to do? The advantage, as I understand, would be that it required no reboot, so the room mate can carry on with their work on the PC as soon as they come back.
dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdx
Emre, can you get an FTP login space setup for hog? If we get a download link and some instructions setup, people can start testing it out.
GPU can be done as well, but due to GPL restrictions as reorder mentioned, some magic has to be done. It works nicely for AMD, for Nvidia we can work it out. More challenging is that each pool has its own miner at the moment. But this may change in near future.I will try to prepare CPU live miner as soon as possible. I plan to use yam only. If somebody has a decent hosting let me know. The iso file will be under 200MB.
The GPU setup seems not possible on LiveCD: proprietary AMD and Nvidia drivers cannot be bundled due to license restrictions, so they need to be downloaded/setup on each boot. But, they require reboot after setup, and this will be effectively restore the system to its virgin state without a persistent storage.Besides, CD/DVD drives are becoming a rarity. LiveUSB seems to be a better option for such a distribution.
Oooh, I like the idea. The zero-config is possible, but much more difficult with a no data storage requirement (i.e., LiveCD). Is the intent to make it easy for anyone to set-up a single machine for repeated mining, or to start mining an any machine one and only one time?