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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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13 years ago

Hi Tristan. I got Quartus working for fedora17 I published the steps I followed but I am waiting for the content of the article to be approved by altera forum. I took some hints from the ubuntu guide and is essentially the same thing: edit the 51_usbblaster.rules file, then update some libraries in the quartus/linux64 folder (i guess this is required just for users running a 64-bit OS because the quartus software itself is 32-bit). I will post the link to the detailed installation steps I took as soon as the article is approved by the fourm admins.