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16 years ago

HOWTO: Setting up the USB blaster on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

edit: as of quartus ii 11.0, altera finally supports /dev/bus/usb out-of-the-box and does not rely on usbfs. the original version of this post described how to "fake" usbfs support in ubuntu, but thi...
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16 years ago

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Updated instructions for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala):

The file that I said to modify in Step 1 no longer exists in Karmic, so instead edit the file /etc/rc.local and add this at the bottom: 

#  USBFS emulation for Altera USB Blaster.
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
mount -n -t usbfs usbfs /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
ln -sf .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
Then save that file and run "sudo /etc/rc.local".

Also then do Step 2 in the same way as in the original instructions.

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Thanks a lot !I can use it in 9.10 now!