HOWTO: Setting up the USB blaster on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Hi,

I've written updated instructions for this as well (Ubuntu 14.04-64 installation With Quartus II 13.1.0 64-bit), I hope it is OK that I post the link:

http://www.fpga-dev.com/altera-usb-blaster-with-ubuntu/

It also has an extensive section on useful trouble-shooting commands.

An important point about the original (now updated) instructions/top post (and some given by answers in this thread): You should check what your Product ID is, and use this Product ID for the udev rules. The top post assumes that Product ID is 6001 which might not be the case for many users. Do this:

$ lsusb|grep Altera
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 09fb:6010 Altera

In the above example, the product ID is 6010.

Another option is to add udev rules for all known Altera Product IDs (6001, 6002, 6003, 6010 and 6810).

And to adress de_prince's last specific problem: this error message will be shown if port permissions doesn't work. You can try to run jtagd and jtagconfig as root just to verify that this is indeed a permission problem. See the link above, details on how to do this is provided there.