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@@ -893,7 +893,11 @@ Q: What happened to CPU mining?
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A: Being increasingly irrelevant for most users, and a maintenance issue, it is
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A: Being increasingly irrelevant for most users, and a maintenance issue, it is
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no longer under active development and will not be supported. No binary builds
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no longer under active development and will not be supported. No binary builds
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supporting CPU mining will be released. Virtually all remaining users of CPU
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supporting CPU mining will be released. Virtually all remaining users of CPU
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-mining are as back ends for illegal botnets.
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+mining are as back ends for illegal botnets. The main reason cgminer is being
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+inappopriately tagged as a virus by antivirus software is due to the trojans
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+packaging a CPU mining capable version of it. There is no longer ANY CPU mining
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+code in cgminer. If you are mining bitcoin with CPU today, you are spending
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+1000x more in electricity costs than you are earning in bitcoin.
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Q: I upgraded cgminer version and my hashrate suddenly dropped!
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Q: I upgraded cgminer version and my hashrate suddenly dropped!
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A: No, you upgraded your SDK version unwittingly between upgrades of cgminer
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A: No, you upgraded your SDK version unwittingly between upgrades of cgminer
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@@ -1089,10 +1093,9 @@ They are Field-Programmable Gate Arrays that have been programmed to do Bitcoin
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mining. Since the acronym needs to be only 3 characters, the "Field-" part has
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mining. Since the acronym needs to be only 3 characters, the "Field-" part has
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been skipped.
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been skipped.
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-Q: How do I get my BFL/Icarus/Lancelot/Cairnsmore device to auto-recognise?
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+Q: How do I get my Icarus/Lancelot/Cairnsmore device to auto-recognise?
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A: On linux, if the /dev/ttyUSB* devices don't automatically appear, the only
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A: On linux, if the /dev/ttyUSB* devices don't automatically appear, the only
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thing that needs to be done is to load the driver for them:
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thing that needs to be done is to load the driver for them:
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-BFL: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0x6014
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Icarus: sudo modprobe pl2303 vendor=0x067b product=0x230
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Icarus: sudo modprobe pl2303 vendor=0x067b product=0x230
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Lancelot: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0x6001
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Lancelot: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0x6001
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Cairnsmore: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio product=0x8350 vendor=0x0403
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Cairnsmore: sudo modprobe ftdi_sio product=0x8350 vendor=0x0403
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