Honored ContributorEven though Quartus-II 7.2 does NOT officially support Linux RHEL5, has anyone been successful installing (and using) the USB Blaster?
The REH3/4 installation doesn't seem to be applicable. Thanks in advance. :)
Honored ContributorJust don't do it.
Honored Contributori run centos 5, with the usb blaster.
not difficult, the only real issue is that it doesn't use hotplug. udev rule is attached, as are my init script and /etc/jtagd directory. please note that the init script has a hard coded path to my quartus install, you need to change it. copy the jtagd init script to /etc/init.d copy the jtagd directory to /etc edit the jtagd initscript to correct the paths /etc/init.d/jtagd as root, run chkconfig --add jtagd as root type service jtagd start now, as a user, plug in the usbblaster, and type jtagconfig, it should list the jtag devices attached. --dalon Please note this is out of date.Honored ContributorI had to add "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/altera/quartus7.1/libraries" and still I get
1) USB_Blaster [USB 1-1.1] Unable to lock chain (Insufficient port permissions)Honored Contributormake sure you kill all user created instances of jtagd, and then run the service as root.
Also, make sure your udev rule looks like this. BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="USB-Blaster", SYMLINK+="usbblaster", MODE="0666" --dalonHonored ContributorI'm having the same issue. You didn't specify what to do with the udev rule, from the looks of things, so maybe there's a more complicated step than just copying the rules file to /etc/udev/rules.d? Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of a huge subversion checkout, so I can't restart my system to see if the shotgun approach of restarting all the services would work.
Thanks, though, for actually putting some informaition on this. So much more helpful than, "Don't waste your time," and, "Oh, just undo the last 2 days of work getting your system up and running and spend another 2 days using an older OS."Honored ContributorHi,
you can probably just restart udev, but the other important thing is (i have found) creating an init script to start the jtagserver. i have attached a tgz with the rules i use in my fc8 install, and previous RHEL5 install. you should see a device called /dev/usbblaster. note that this doesn't support multiple usbblaster, i just didn't bother. --dalonHonored ContributorHi dalon,
I did USB-Blaster installation in CentOS5.2 using the method you described. It worked well. Thanx. @ErikZane and Vista: I had same issues as yours after I copied all the files given by dalon. I did "sudo killall jtagd" and then restarted udev. That solved the problem. Sincerely, Kumar Vijay Mishra.Honored ContributorThanks a lot for all your help. I wish Altera people were linux savvy. I will try to put all my pains into a book and publish it.
Just one change I had to do to get my setup working after I put stuff from redhat_usbblaster.tar.gz i modified the /etc/init.d/jtagd (changed path to jtagd) JTAGD=/opt/altera9.1/quartus/bin/jtagd since I am running 9.1Honored ContributorHello, i can't get this to work.
[aprado@localhost bin]$ jtagconfig Connecting to server(s) [. ] Error (Server error) when scanning hardware this is my message, thanksHonored ContributorAnyone =( This is kinda urgent
