Missing NIOS II Hardware in run configurations

1. Try from Debug As ->Debug configuration and select the NIOS II hardware.

I have tried that, there is no NIOS II hardware selection in the RC menu

2. Eclipse toolbar window-> Open Perspective->check if Nios II is the default if not ->Other and change to Nios II.

When I open the Nios II perspective, little changes. There is also the Nios II Debug perspective. It has a different window organization but still no debug.

3. Run Nios II Eclipse as Administrator.

Check post from caridee http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30848

I did this like the the article suggested. Still no Nios II hardware to debug. I know running as admin took effect because all of the file explorers that come up in eclipse have the CWD in the quartus bin directory

Thanks,

Ed