Help with USB Blaster using linux SUSE 11.3

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I am using SUSE 11.3 and trying to get the Quartus II programmer to recognize the USB Blaster. 

 Currently, the programmer does not recognize the USB Blaster under Hardware Setup.  I have tried the following procedure without success with my board powered up and usbblaster connected to the board and the usb port on linux machine:  1. Added the following lines to the file "51-usbblaster.rules" file under /etc/udev/rules.d:  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%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c" BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#usbdev}; printf /proc/bus/usb/%%03i/%%03i$${K%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c" BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#usbdev}; printf /proc/bus/usb/%%03i/%%03i$${K%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c"  2. Added following line in /etc/init.d/boot.local  /home/bin/altera/10.1/quartus/bin/jtagd  3. mkdir /etc/jtagd  4. cp /home/bin/altera/10.1/quartus/linux/pgm_parts.txt /etc/jtagd/jtagd.pgm_parts   5. touch /etc/jtagd/jtagd.conf  6. /home/bin/altera/10.1/quartus/bin/jtagconfig  The result: No JTAG hardware available  Any help would be appreciated.

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The following helped me to get the USB Blaster running on Ubuntu 10.04, it might help you too. Also there are quite a few threads about similar problems on various distributions here in the forum, so you might want to try a search. 

 I needed to remount the /dev/bus "filesystem" to /proc/bus as the Altera jtag tools seem to have the paths in /proc/bus/usb hardcoded.  I put the following in my /etc/rc.local so it gets exectuted on every boot, don't know whether it works the same on SuSE, but there surely is an option to run commands on boot there too:   mount --bind /dev/bus /proc/bus ln -s /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices /proc/bus/usb/devices   HTH

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I found a solution to my problem: 

 mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs  mount -n -t usbfs usbfs /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644  ln -sf /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices   mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

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Thanks tklauser