Programming Cyclone II kit with Quartus and Linux

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Hi, 

 I have been used to program my FPGA with Quartus 7.2 and Windows, but I am now required to do so with Linux, so I installed Quartus 11.0 with the Altera Installer, everything seemed to be fine, until I tried to load a simple program of mine : the USB cable is detected (it's called USB blaster variant [5-2] , but when I click "Start", nothing happens. What am I doing wrong ?  Thanks,  S

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:( Still no replies.. I was wondering : maybe I need to change the rights of the USB dev file ? I just can't understand why it shows up and won't work. Or maybe I should try with a more stable version ? I'm clueless, so any idea, (even guesses) is welcome ! 

 S

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--- Quote Start ---  Hi,  I have been used to program my FPGA with Quartus 7.2 and Windows, but I am now required to do so with Linux, so I installed Quartus 11.0 with the Altera Installer, everything seemed to be fine, until I tried to load a simple program of mine : the USB cable is detected (it's called USB blaster variant [5-2] , but when I click "Start", nothing happens. What am I doing wrong ?  Thanks,  S  --- Quote End ---    Same problem, it shows USB Blaster Variant but at progress bar it says Failed :/ Ubuntu 11.04 here... Any solution?

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--- Quote Start ---  Same problem, it shows USB Blaster Variant but at progress bar it says Failed :/ Ubuntu 11.04 here... Any solution?  --- Quote End ---  Ubuntu 11.04 works fine with USB-Blasters. Look at the threads on the subject.  http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32179 http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31426  What is your 'variant', I assume some sort of clone? It should also work fine, but perhaps your udev rules are not setup correctly.  One caveat: USB-Blasters do not work from virtual machines (VirtualBox or VMWare) - at least when I last checked a few weeks ago. VirtualBox has just released 4.1.4, but I haven't tested it yet.  Cheers, Dave