MEN F210, Cyclone II and Linux

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to get data from the GPS of a board, a MEN F210 [1]. The board is installed in an industrial case and I have Debian 9 installed with kernel 4.15. Altera modules of vanilla kernel are compiled and I can see the FPGA being recognized at startup but I can't see the UART device. The FPGA seems in state unknow.

How do I start the FPGA? I don't have a firmware or anything. I have the MEN tools that should allow me to build the drivers [2] but the software is old and can't make it work (have an Ubuntu 15.04 for that which seems the latest officially supported byt the toolkit).

Can anyone give me a hint? I'm surely missing something.

Thanks

[1] https://www.men.de/products/discontinued-products/f210/

[2] https://www.men.de/software/13z025-90/