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Honored ContributorSeems the problem is resolved:
I have repeated the installation described on the "nioswiki.jot.com....." howto mentioned above on another computer, running a standalone Ubuntu 8.04. I have however, deviated from the recipe on these two points which should not make any difference for the result: 1. I did not bother about the license stuff for Quartus since I don't need that part of the suite. 2. I use a script '/etc/init.d/jtagd_init' to control the jtagd daemon instead of starting it from the /etc/rc.local script as suggested in the howto. My init script is "stolen" from a post I stumbled accross (Many Thanks whoever the author is... :-D) and looks like this: ----8<--------------------# !/bin/sh # ## BEGIN INIT INFO# Provides: jtagd_init# Required-Start: $syslog# Required-Stop: $syslog# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5# Default-Stop: 0 1 6# Short-Description: Start Jtag daemon# ## END INIT INFO . /lib/lsb/init-functions NAME=jtagd_init DAEMON=/opt/altera8.0/quartus/bin/jtagd PIDFILE=/var/run/jtagd.pid test -x $DAEMON || exit 5 case $1 in start) log_daemon_msg "Starting JTAGD" "jtagd_init" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON pidofproc $DAEMON > $PIDFILE log_end_msg $? ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping JTAGD" "jtagd_init" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE log_end_msg $? rm -f $PIDFILE ;; restart|force-reload) $0 stop && sleep 2 && $0 start ;; try-restart) if $0 status >/dev/null; then $0 restart else exit 0 fi ;; reload) exit 3 ;; status) pidofproc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON >/dev/null status=$? if [ $status -eq 0 ]; then log_success_msg "JTAGD is running." else log_failure_msg "JTAGD is not running." fi exit $status ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|try-restart|force-reload|status}" exit 2 ;; esac ----8<-------------------- All downloading now works fine! I believe VMWare only supports USB 1.1 and not USB 2 and that this is causing the problems.
