Installing The Usb-Blaster Driver On Linux - Altera USB-Blaster User Manual

Chapter 1: Setting Up the USB-Blaster Download Cable
Software Setup
5. Click Browse... and browse to the location of the driver on your system:
\<Quartus II system directory>\drivers\usb-blaster. Click OK.
6. Click Next to install the driver.
7. Click Install this driver software anyway when the Hardware Installation
warning appears.
8. Click Close when the driver installation is completed. Reboot your system.

Installing the USB-Blaster Driver on Linux

This section describes how to install the USB-Blaster driver on Linux.
The Quartus II software uses the built-in USB drivers (usbfs) on RedHat Linux to
access the USB-Blaster download cable. By default, root is the only user allowed to use
usbfs. You must change the permission on the ports before you can use the
USB-Blaster download cable to program devices with the Quartus II software.
You must have system administration (root) privileges to configure the USB-Blaster
download cable drivers.
For Red Hat Enterprise 4 and earlier versions
1. Add the following lines to the /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap file.
#
# Altera USB-Blaster
#
usbblaster 0x03 0x09fb 0x6001 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
usbblaster 0x03 0x09fb 0x6002 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
usbblaster 0x03 0x09fb 0x6003 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
2. Create a file named /etc/hotplug/usb/usbblaster and add the following lines to it.
#!/bin/sh
# USB-Blaster hotplug script
# Allow any user to access the cable
chmod 666 $DEVICE
3. Make the file executable.
4. Complete your installation by setting up the programming hardware in the
Quartus II software as described in the following section.
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