Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
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...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

I was wondering if someone could provide me some guidance here? I cannot get the USB-Blaster working with Ubuntu 11.04 and Quartus 11. The error message that I get when I run "nios2-terminal" is

"There is no JTAG UARTS available which match the --device and --instance options you provided"

The jtagconfig command shows

1) USB-Blaster [2-1]

081000DD

I tried all possible methods available on this form. Currently I am using the approach that requires modification to rc.local. Any help would be appreciated.

My windows setup works fine.