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14 years ago

DE2-115 demonstrations: "nios2-download: command not found"

I just bought a DE2-115, installed Quartus 11.0sp1 (and NIOS).

USB blaster shows up in USB devices and it responds to ControlPanel.exe (only the win7 64 bit version). Host is Windows 7 32bit.

The IR demonstration loads and runs fine (DE2 responds to remote control).

But other demo produces the following errors:

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Altera Nios2 Command Shell [GCC 3]

Version 11.0sp1, Built Mon Jul 4 01:29:34 PDT 2011

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bash: nios2-download: command not found

bash: nios2-terminal: command not found

I have added Quartus bin directory to the path e-var, no difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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    14 years ago

    It`s may be you do not change the workspace , you can try it . You should look over the workpath of QuartusII and NiosII .

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    14 years ago

    I have the same problem . I tried switching the workspace from NIOSII IDE but it didn't work.

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    14 years ago

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    I have the same problem . I tried switching the workspace from NIOSII IDE but it didn't work.

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    Same here on two different machines under Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit).
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    14 years ago

    I've done now a pretty dirty hack - and perhaps get other problems somewhere. I simply do not see at this early stage, how this works all together.

    I changed the file "nios_bash" in around line 96 from (version from 11.1sp2):

    PATH="/bin:/usr/bin"

    to

    PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/d/altera/11.1sp2/nios2eds/bin:/cygdrive/d/altera/11.1sp2/nios2eds/bin/fs2/bin:/cygdrive/d/altera/11.1sp2/nios2eds/bin/gnu/H-i686-mingw32/bin"

    and now the demonstrations batch files seem to run. please notice the fixed drive name /d/ in those paths, which is due to my installation.
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    14 years ago

    you can use emeditor or word pad open the xxx.bat than replace @ set SOPC_BUILDER_PATH_xx=%SOPC_KIT_NIOS2%+%SOPC_BUILDER_PATH_xx%

    to @ set SOPC_BUILDER_PATH=%SOPC_KIT_NIOS2%+SOPC_BUILDER_PATH%
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    12 years ago

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    Thank you Feldti, your tip works.

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    Thanks a lot Feldti

    It works!

    I modify the file named: nios_bash

    in two lines here is what i do:

    PATH_BEFORE_NIOS_BASH=$PATH

    export PATH_BEFORE_NIOS_BASH

    # Before ---> PATH="/bin:/usr/bin"# After --->

    PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin/fs2/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin/gnu/H-i686-mingw32/bin:$PATH"# If ModelSim is in the path, let's keep it before we rebuild PATH

    vsimpath=`which vsim 2> /dev/null`

    [ $? != 1 ] && msim_path=`dirname $vsimpath`

    unset vsimpath

    # Before ---> PATH="/bin:/usr/bin"# After --->

    PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin/fs2/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin/gnu/H-i686-mingw32/bin:$PATH"

    I only add the line

    PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin/fs2/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/10.1/nios2eds/bin/gnu/H-i686-mingw32/bin:$PATH"

    two times in these positions (arround the line 87 to 100).

    THANKS!:cool: