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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

Just upgraded to 10.1. Altera has done nothing about this issue. They are still blindly trying to use /proc/bus/usb, so you still need to either edit their binaries (my approach) or mount a new directory over /proc/bus.

Way to go, Altera. :(