new_gekko/README.md

CGminer 4.11.1 GekkoScience Compac, 2pac & Newpack BM1384

This is a cgminer 4.11.1 with support fot GekkoScience Compac, 2pac & Newpack BM1384 Support.

This software is forked from cgminer 4.11.1 original from ckolivas.

(you can refer to original documentation to docs/README)

GekkoScience compac Usb miner

GekkoScience 2pac Usb miner

GekkoScience Newpac Usb miner

This software use a slighty moddified driver from novak's gekko driver.

I allows working with icarus miner and gekko on same rig.

to build this specific code on linux:

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libudev-dev \
libjansson-dev libncurses5-dev -y
git clone https://github.com/wareck/cgminer-gekko.git
cd cgminer-gekko
sudo usermod -a -G dialout,plugdev $USER
sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native" ./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Option Summary

  --gekko-compac-freq <clock>   Chip clock speed (MHz) default is 200 Mhz
  --gekko-2pac-freq <clock> Chip clock speed (Mhz) default is 150 Mhz 
  --gekko-newpac-freq <clock> Chip clock speed (Mhz) default is 150 Mhz
  --suggest-diff <value> Limit diff for starting mine default is 32

Command line

 ./cgminer -o pool_url -u username -p password --gekko-compac-freq 200 --gekko-2pac-freq 150 --gekko-newpac-freq 150

For windows users, you can donwload the release zip file

Inside you can find a cgminer_run.bat file and you can adjust you settings.

Nicehash extranonce support

You can use your miner with last extranonce support for nicehash by adding #xnsub at the address end, like this:

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://sha256.eu.nicehash.com:3334#xnsub -u my_btc_address -p x --gekko-compac-freq 200 --gekko-2pac-freq 150 --gekko-newpac-freq 150

Credits

``` ckolivas : https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer.git (original cgminer code) vthoang : https://github.com/vthoang/cgminer.git (gekko driver) nicehash : https://github.com/nicehash/cgminer-ckolivas.git (nicheash extranonce) prmam : coinbase flags fix and default configuration, udev permissions fix chipjarred : macos compilation fix, memory leak fix, and Fixing change of sign warnings when referring to buffers