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12 years ago

Nallatech PCIe385 driver problem

I have a PCIe385 (not PCIe385N) board from Nallatech. The Linux driver in the 13.0 AOCL release does not seem to recognise my card. lspci says: 01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Altera...
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12 years ago

When you run 'aocl install' make sure to do so as root/administrator. Also, the flash programming occurs usually over USB-Blaster, so even without a valid PCIe device or interface you should be able to perform this step. Are you sure that the USB-Blaster cables have been attached correctly?

Also, it is recommended that you use 'aocl flash <image>.aocx' rather than using the quartus programmer directly.

After flashing the device with a 13.0 aocx image and installing the proper PCIe driver, the device ID with lspci should be 0xAB00.