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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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14 years ago

Sorry, I let you confused.

I mean the original method.

Insert this in rc.local 


mount --bind /dev/bus /proc/bus
ln -s /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices /proc/bus/usb/devices

And add a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/ 


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

This method work in Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.

But when I upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit.

It doesn't...