Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
13 years ago

Quartus II Web Edition not communicating with USB-Blaster on OpenSuSe 12.1

I have succesfully installed Quartus II Web Edition 12.0sp2 on OpenSuSe KDE4 12.1 x86_64.

Quartus II is working in 32 bit operation. (not configured as 64bit during installation)

I have an sample project succesfully compiled without any errors on Quartus II.

But when i try to programm the .sof file to my EP3C25 Starterboard, the programmer doesn't show the USB-Blaster in the programmer configure window.

If I start de command "hwinfo --usb" by terminal in su mode I get the following output info;

14: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device

[Created at usb.122]

Unique ID: ZmS7.7UPKMDz+LLB

Parent ID: 7eqy.v+N+B0xY+P6

SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0

SysFS BusID: 6-1:1.0

Hardware Class: unknown

Model: "Altera USB-Blaster"

Hotplug: USB

Vendor: usb 0x09fb "Altera"

Device: usb 0x6001 "USB-Blaster"

Revision: "4.00"

Serial ID: "91d28408"

Speed: 12 Mbps

Module Alias: "usb:v09FBp6001d0400dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFF"

Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Attached to:# 8 (Hub)

So far conclusion SuSe is detecting the USB-Blaster

But when I start the command "jtagconfig" I get the following message;

hkopp64@linux-y0kk:~/altera/12.0sp2/quartus/bin> jtagconfig

*** The Quartus II software cannot be started because the current platform,

'linux64', does not appear to be installed in:

'/home/hkopp64/altera/12.0sp2/quartus'.

Error (Server error) when scanning hardware

hkopp64@linux-y0kk:~/altera/12.0sp2/quartus/bin>

Quartus II jtag programmer is pointing to a 64bit dir, but how can I correct this to get the programmer working with the USB-Blaster into 32 bit operation ?

Kind Regards

Huib

:confused:

1 Reply

  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
    Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor

    I have found an solution but the problem starts by installing of Quartus II that the linux64 directory will not uncompressed and saved under altera/12.0sp2/quartus directory

    My solution is to manually gzip the linux64.gz file and save under altera/12.0sp2/quartus.

    Now start jtagconf by terminal and the USB-Blaster shows up !

    Problem solved :)