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15 years ago

Quartus II Can't see the USB BLaster

Hello i am using CENTOS5, installed the quartus in my home folder without any problem.

But the centos isnt recognizing the USB blaster, what should i do? I tried everything that is on nioswiki.com and nothing

thanks

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    15 years ago

    It's all about whether you're distro is using devfs or udev. I don't recall which CentOS 5 is. I'll look into and post again.

    What do you get when you type "jtagconfig" from a properly setup shell?

    Cheers,

    --slacker
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    15 years ago

    Hello, i am not at my job atm so i can't answer.

    CentOS uses udev! Nioswiki told me to that:

    For RHEL5 or Centos5,

    Create a file named /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules and add the following

    lines to it. Take note that after# USB-Blaster, all code must be in one line.

    # USB-Blaster

    BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001",MODE="0666", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#usbdev}; printf /proc/bus/usb/%%03i/%%03i $${K%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c"

    Next, create an empty file in your home directory named “.jtag.conf ”.

    touch ~/.jtag.conf

    That's what i did.

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    15 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    It's all about whether you're distro is using devfs or udev. I don't recall which CentOS 5 is. I'll look into and post again.

    What do you get when you type "jtagconfig" from a properly setup shell?

    Cheers,

    --slacker

    --- Quote End ---

    Hello, this is what i get:

    [aprado@localhost ~]$ jtagconfig

    Error (Server error) when scanning hardware ]

    Thanks
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    15 years ago

    Do you have something that looks like this in your /etc/fstab file? 

    usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0

    If not, add it and do a "mount -a" following it and the usbfs filesystem should be mounted.

    Never have seen that particular error myself, but that's the only step that I see missing.

    --slacker
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    15 years ago

    Did it, and when i do mount -a i get the following message:

    [root@localhost ~]# mount -a

    mount: usbfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy
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    15 years ago

    I had a similar issue under SuSE 11.3, but it was not the same error message as you received. Here is my config and solution.

    I added the /etc/udev/ rules file and created the .jtag.conf, but couldn't mount my USB blaster on a DE3 board.

    jtagconfig resulted in the following status message: 

    $ jtagconfig 
No JTAG hardware available                    
~/src/nios2de3
$
    Here was my /etc/fstab configuration of usbfs: 

    usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
    And here was the 'dmesg' output showing the device being correctly detected when I plug in the device: 

     usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
 usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=09fb, idProduct=6001
 usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 usb 2-1: Product: USB-Blaster
 usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Altera
 usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 91d28408
    mount -a wouldn't mount it, so I modified the usbfs line in /etc/fstab from 'noauto' to 'devmode=0666'. Then mount -a added the device. jtagconfig then read my USB blaster just fine.

    Hope this helps...