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I've just installed Quartus 16.1 Lite on CentOS7 x64 which is running inside VmWare Player as a VM. I can start up Quartus just fine. However, I'm having a rough time setting up USB Blaster II. I've used the following link in trying to setup USB Blaster but I'm lost on whether I'm missing any steps.
https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/download/drivers/dri-usb_b-lnx.html I configured this 51-usbblaster.rules file in the "/etc/udev/rules.d/" directory. The 51-usbblaster.rules files wasn't there to begin with so I just created it. There was no indication in the above link saying what to do if the file is not there. Therefore, I just assumed I should create it. I created it and added the entries that the link told me to. I followed the RedHat Linux Enterprise 5 section in that link because I didn't see a CentOS7 section of steps. The image attachment "rulesFile.png" shows what I have done.
https://alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=14101&stc=1 (SEE ATTACHMENT "RULESFILE.PNG)
I can also see there are some driver files from when I installed Quartus but I'm not sure they are related to the USB Blaster II. The driver files are shown in the attachment "driverLocation.png". I haven't found any documentation or tutorial or link telling me how to run these driver installs I'm seeing so for now I haven't touched any of the executables in that directory. These executables can be seen in the attachment below.
(SEE ATTACHMENT "DRIVERLOCATION.PNG")
After create that file above I started up Quartus went into Tools->Programmer->Hardware Setup and tried to select an option for USB Blaster II but there is nothing there. How should I proceed. Are there any other essential drivers I should install to run Quartus? This "Getting Started with SocKit board" pdf mentions something about a FPGA SRAM Object File. Do I need to download that as well?
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I had a similar problem.
My System:
Opensuse Leap 42.3, Terasic DE1-SoC (embedded Altera USB Blaster II), Quartus 16.1
My solution:
create file "/etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules"
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# Altera USB-Blaster II rule to set mode to 666.
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6810", MODE="0666"
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and reload rules:
>sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
and reconnect usb blaster
If it doesn't work for your system read "Dynamic Kernel Device Management with udev" Documentation of your system.
Another way(manually)
Get busnumber and devicenumer:
>dmesg -w
[ 3464.664143] usb 1-1.5: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[ 3464.756559] usb 1-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=09fb, idProduct=6810
[ 3464.756562] usb 1-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
or with lsusb
>lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 09fb:6810 Altera
You should find device under /dev/bus/usb/busnumber/devicenumber
>ls -la /dev/bus/usb/001/004
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 189, 3 27. Sep 18:28 /dev/bus/usb/001/004
Check rights.
If you don't have "write" rights it doesn't work. You can change rights manually for first tests or change udev rule(see above)
manually:
if it looks like this:
>ls -la /dev/bus/usb/001/008
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 7 27. Sep 18:45 /dev/bus/usb/001/008
change rights manually:
>sudo chmod 0666 /dev/bus/usb/001/008
>ls -la /dev/bus/usb/001/008
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 189, 7 27. Sep 18:45 /dev/bus/usb/001/008
Start Quartus and then tools->programmer
you see new messages on dmesg:
[ 4687.658647] usb 1-1.5: USB disconnect, device number 8
[ 4689.392249] usb 1-1.5: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
[ 4689.501222] usb 1-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=09fb, idProduct=6010
[ 4689.501226] usb 1-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 4689.501227] usb 1-1.5: Product: DE-SoC
[ 4689.501228] usb 1-1.5: Manufacturer: Altera
[ 4689.501229] usb 1-1.5: SerialNumber: DE-SoC-001-12514
check rights for new device
>ls -la /dev/bus/usb/001/009
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 8 27. Sep 18:48 /dev/bus/usb/001/009
>sudo chmod 0666 /dev/bus/usb/001/009
>ls -la /dev/bus/usb/001/009
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 189, 8 27. Sep 18:48 /dev/bus/usb/001/009
After you changed rights: Press button "Hardware Setup" in Quartus Programmer.
Change "currently selected Hardware" to "DE-SoC[1-1.5]" on Pull Down.
Name could be different (other USB Port or other hardware). Press "Close"
Now it should work.
other useful commands:
udevadm monitor
or udevadm monitor --env
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