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15 years ago

Help with USB Blaster using linux SUSE 11.3

I am using SUSE 11.3 and trying to get the Quartus II programmer to recognize the USB Blaster. Currently, the programmer does not recognize the USB Blaster under Hardware Setup. I have tri...
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15 years ago

The following helped me to get the USB Blaster running on Ubuntu 10.04, it might help you too. Also there are quite a few threads about similar problems on various distributions here in the forum, so you might want to try a search.

I needed to remount the /dev/bus "filesystem" to /proc/bus as the Altera jtag tools seem to have the paths in /proc/bus/usb hardcoded.

I put the following in my /etc/rc.local so it gets exectuted on every boot, don't know whether it works the same on SuSE, but there surely is an option to run commands on boot there too: 


mount --bind /dev/bus /proc/bus
ln -s /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices /proc/bus/usb/devices

HTH