Since when did kano have antminer firmware . All I've seen for the s1 is the cgminer package and that makes no other change to the device in its workings.

Also note if you want special tweaks send a demo unit to ckolivias so he can try and make it work.

@ckolivas:
Do you plan support in cgminer new Rockminer "Rocket" RK-Box and Rockminer R3? I hope yes, but when?

If one of the devs gets one (I think Kano might be working on something).


Nah it seems almost no manufacturer has yet figured out that for the best performance and long term support they'd be best getting their cgminer driver written by us instead of making and maintaining their own fork on a branch that slowly bit rots on an old version or trying to get their often quickly hacked up driver incorporated after the fact.

It would be rare for me to turn down more hardware to test with although being "paid" by being sent hardware that generates almost no bitcoin these days hardly seems worth it but it need not be fully compensated work since the bulk of cgminer development is still done for free. The only reason payment is part of the discussion for hardware is that generally it's to develop a driver for a company that's trying to make money from using my software so it would be silly for me to work hard for free for them to make money.  If I deleted your post it was almost certainly part of an altcoin discussion. I've had plenty of spare time overlooking the beach

I bought a BitFury RED USB BTC miner to try and get some experience with somthing other than ALT coins.
I downloaded the latest cgminer, installed the USB driver (COM8) but when I try to run cgminer I get the following:

The device is showing up as:

Never mind. When I tried a different USB driver, it showed-up as a USB device rather than COM device and then cgminer could see it.
It's odd though, normally you use a COM device for Alt coins. Why did Bitcoin decide to use a different interface?

CGMiner doesn't use Com device drivers it uses direct USB.  CGMiner told you to read the readme.txt which explains how to use the Zadig utility for Windoze to install the WinUSB driver.  Has nothing to do with Bitcoin per se.

I guess I should have said current versions of CGMiner don't use com ports anymore.

So you must have been using an older version of CGMiner.  The current version doesn't use com ports and doesn't mine alt coins.

Glad you got it working.

Then you're in the wrong place. You need to seek support from the maintainers of your fork. This is the support thread only for mining bitcoin on the official cgminer.

Actually, in in the correct place, since im working on getting a BitFury working with the current cgminer. The discussion regarding Zeus was related to the version I used on the host previously when I had Zeus rigs running, but those are moved elsewhere now, and im trying to see if I can get BTC ASIC miners going.

That's exactly what I did to solve the problem.
The problem was left over COM port drivers, so the miner defaulted to a COM port instead of a USB device.
After the driver update, your software worked perfectly and the little miner is hashing away at between 1-2 GHs, which is like 10x faster than my entire Scrypt ASIC farm, at much less power. Im trying to do the math to figure if that will result in 10x revenue improvement, but it's confusing doing all the conversions.