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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

JTAG on XUBUNTU (VMWare image)

Hi, I was able to set up Quartus+Nios on a Xubuntu 10.10, but I cannot figure out what to do with the jtag. Whatever I do, the result is: vmplanet@ubuntu:~$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID...
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15 years ago

Thanks everybody. As I found out later the problem is caused by exclusion usbfs from the Xubuntu Lucid Kernel. The easiest solution is to add

sudo mount --bind /dev/bus /proc/bus

sudo ln -s /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices /proc/bus/usb/devices

to rc.local

Now I have a VMware Xubuntu image with installed Quartus, Nios and working USB-Blaster. Maybe it makes sense to share it :)