Raspberry Pi - Mining with MinePeon

[jafc76]

That dongle has a Realtek RTL8192CU chipset so should work

Is the raspberry pi detecting the dongle?

You can use:

sudo lsusb

[Svennisen]

Thanks for your response. I know that the wifi card works on the Pi because I was able to use it with Raspian Wheezy. Unfortunately the cabled connection is not an option for me as the only place I can put my router is near a window to my outside that can't really fit the pi, a monitor, keyboard, mouse and all the mining equipment. Plus I'd have to get another TV or monitor anyway. It seems like others have gotten wifi working for Minepeon, but I can't really follow what they were doing. Linux has a bit of a wall of entry where you need to know a lot of terms and a little programming to do a number of things it seems.

So what does SSH mean? I see it a lot, but don't really get it. Is this a command that I type in?
And if I were to do option 2, do you mean from another computer, or does a browser actually appear for my Pi if I get it connected to the internet? Sorry to be asking these questions, but there's not really a guide I can follow on the matter.

SSH: Stands for Secure SHell, it is a protocol for secure connections over a network. What it means is, if your interface with your (in this case) rasperry pi is a command window, what you can do is connect to the raspberry pi remotely and access the command prompt. To put it simply, anything you write through ssh to your pi is kind of the same thing as writing it with a monitor and keyboard connected with the pi.

What this means is that you dont really need a monitor etc connected to the pi. As long as you have installed it correctly and connected to your local network, you can control it from any computer on the network.
And yes, it is a command you put in, but on another computer than the pi.

2. Yes from another computer. Most rasp OS dont have any gui but only a command prompt so you cannot get a browser on it. However, minepeon has an installed web server which means that you can connect to it through http.

Connecting to the Minepeon through http is more simple but not as secure as ssh. But if you dont open ports in your router to connect to it outside your own network it shouldn't matter.

My advice to you is:
1. Install Minepeon on sd card.
2. Plug it in to pi and connect to power and router.
3. Login in to your router and check which ip address the connected Pi has.
4. Open a browser tab and put in Pi ip address. Should be something like 192.168.x.xxx
5. Login on the web page that should show up.
6. Change pool settings and view graphs..

7. To do any further changes. Use ssh to access command prompt on pi.
8. Open terminal window on a computer on the network.
9. Type in: "ssh minepeon@IPaddressOfYourRaspPI"
10. Should now be waiting for password. Type in: "peon"
11. Optional, to access root type: "sudo -s"

Hope this will help. Here are the minepeon wiki, some useful commands are listed there.
MinePeon Bitcoin Mining for the Raspberry PI

Good luck!

[hotdogsafari]

Wow, thanks for all the help guys! I tried sudo lsusb and it does seem to be able to detect my wifi card. I have no problem leaving my Pi by my router without a monitor, but I'm not sure how I would go about logging into my router without a monitor to see what I'm doing. So I'm kind of stuck at step 3. If I had a small TV or monitor with an RCA or HDMI input I could set it up there temporarily to get it started, but I can't leave it there and I foresee that being a problem if the Pi stops working or needs to be restarted or anything like that, so it seems my best option is to either connect wirelessly or buy and run a 100 ft cable through my house to get it connected. Obviously I'd like the first option if possible.

Maybe this helps: The current problem I'm dealing with is that when I boot up my pi, everything says "OK" except for "dhcpcd on eth0" which says "failed." I know this means it's having problems connecting the Pi to the internet, but I don't know if this helps in determining a way to fix it.

Is there a set of commands I could use to tell my pi to use my wireless card to find my router and connect to it? Since it seems to detect my wireless card, I feel this should be trivially easy, but maybe not?

[jafc76]

Ok, now you have Minepeon and is detecting your USB dongle so I'm gonna write you a step by step tutorial to connect to the wifi.

I'm finishing to have lunch so wait a little bit.

[jafc76]

Ok, I'm back, so I'm gonna write the steps to connect your USB dongle.

First, I wanna say that for this steps you need a monitor and a keyboard, if not you can connect to your Raspberry Pi using SSH.

That error "DHCPCD on eth0" is because you don't have the ethernet cable connected to your pi, but don't worry.

Steps:

Login: minepeon

Password: peon

sudo wicd-curses

Password: peon

Shift+P to go to Prefs

Wireless interface, write "wlan0" (Without quotation marks)

Press F10

Shift+R to refresh and see your wifi

Move the cursor to your wifi

Shift+right arrow to go to config

Activate Automatically connect to this network

Key: (write the wifi password)

Press F10

Shift+C to connect and if you obtain an IP everything is working fine.

Shift+Q to quit

Restart

Enjoy!

[hotdogsafari]

Awesome! I'll try this when I get home from work today.

[Svennisen]

Wow, thanks for all the help guys! I tried sudo lsusb and it does seem to be able to detect my wifi card. I have no problem leaving my Pi by my router without a monitor, but I'm not sure how I would go about logging into my router without a monitor to see what I'm doing. So I'm kind of stuck at step 3. If I had a small TV or monitor with an RCA or HDMI input I could set it up there temporarily to get it started, but I can't leave it there and I foresee that being a problem if the Pi stops working or needs to be restarted or anything like that, so it seems my best option is to either connect wirelessly or buy and run a 100 ft cable through my house to get it connected. Obviously I'd like the first option if possible.

Maybe this helps: The current problem I'm dealing with is that when I boot up my pi, everything says "OK" except for "dhcpcd on eth0" which says "failed." I know this means it's having problems connecting the Pi to the internet, but I don't know if this helps in determining a way to fix it.

Is there a set of commands I could use to tell my pi to use my wireless card to find my router and connect to it? Since it seems to detect my wireless card, I feel this should be trivially easy, but maybe not?

What I ment was that you should login to your router from another computer, like the one you installer your pi img from. Write your router ip in a browser.

[nuggium]

Thanks for this write up! I just picked up a rpi and will be referencing this discussion thread quite a few times

[Goolicious]

Hello, I got a little problem. I have my Raspberry running with the May Version of MinePeon. I had problems with the date, but solved them with the help of this thread. Now, I can start MinePeon, I can change the Pool Infos and see the Graphs. But there seems to be nothing in the graphs. When I check into my Pool's Website, it says the worker is not connected. First, I thought I had no Internet connection, but then I tried -pacman and it tried to update.
Has anyone got an idea?

[hotdogsafari]

Awesome guys! It's working perfectly. Thanks for all the help. That set of instructions for the wifi should definitely be added to the wiki. I tried to do it myself, but I guess I don't have permission.