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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

Yep, I agree. I had to run kernel version 2.6.31-19 as well.

You can run your old kernel by default by editing /boot/grub/menu.lst. The 'default' flag tells GRUB which 'title' to choose by default. Switch the value of 'default' to choose your old kernel. Most likely, the new value will be '2'. Look at the list of 'titles'. The index is zero-based.