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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

I'm running Debian testing, not Ubuntu, but for what it's worth I should mention that udev is deprecating the rules that are floating around in this thread.

This is the (currently) working udev-rule to fix permissions on my system. I don't know if it helps on Ubuntu with Quartus 10.1 but it cannot hurt to post it I think:

ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", MODE="0666"

or set mode 660 and add GROUP="<your usergroup>" for example.

/Bjorn