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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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15 years ago

Perhaps you rebooted your computer and didn't re-do one of the steps?

With my solution you have to re-do the "sudo ln -s /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices".

With ykozlov's direction you have to re-do:

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

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

I wouldn't recommend combining the two solutions though. Just stick to one.