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Quartus 19.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 problems with internet and usbblaster

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Hi All, am appealing to anybody who has a similar environment to give me a few tips here :)

The internet problem is weird, the system default is ffox 70 that runs fine standalone but none of the quartus menu's that would invoke it (help etc) work you just get no response. The same is true even if you set the browser path directly to ffox instead of default. Tried this on the Intel Quartus community and got nothing that worked.

2nd problem is byteblaster! OK I admit I bought a "compatible" device that is based on an STM32 and buffer chip https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Altera-Programmer-FPGA-CPLD-JTAG-Quartus-USB-Blaster-Compatible-Flux-Workshop/111612485555?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649. Quartus can see it ok BUT when trying to program target get various errors like “Error (209037): JTAG Server can't access selected programming hardware” & “Error (209040): Can't access JTAG chain”.

Target is QMtech EP4CE15 board https://github.com/ChinaQMTECH/CYCLONE_IV_EP4CE15

Host is dual core 64 bit intel running Linux 5.2.19

The only Windows I have access to is XP/SP3 and all the versions of Quartus that support Cyclone IV E are 64 bit :(

Two other things I can think of this is the Lite version (Licence free) & the help files were installed.
And another thing, there don't seem to be any log files anywhere except an installation log containing just that.
 

The only Windows I have access to is XP/SP3 and all the versions of Quartus that support Cyclone IV E are 64 bit.
Definitely wrong. You can use Quartus 13.1 on 32-Bit Windows for FPGA up to Cyclone V.
 

Thank you for your reply..........Unfortunately I discovered on the Intel download site many links were broken for earlier revisions as shown in the following table


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13.1 prog   XP32    X   App failed to init properly
13.0 prog   XP32    X   App failed to init properly
12.1/sp1 prog   XP32    X   Invalid url at download
12.1 prog   XP32    X   Invalid url at download
12.0/sp2 prog   XP32    X   Invalid url at download
12.0    XP32    X   Invalid url at download
11.1 prog   XP32    X   Invalid url at download
11.0/spi    XP32    X   No popup for download
10.0    XP32    X   No popup for download
9.1/sp2 XP32    X   Invalid url at download
9.1 XP32    X   Invalid url at download
8/sp1 quart XP32    X   Wrong device identified EP3C16



However 13.1 had a different problem and that was XP complained that "App failed to init properly" I took this to mean it was probably 64 bit software.
Perhaps you could share a link where either the standalone programmer (preferably) or full Quartus for XP 32 bit can be downloaded ?

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Here is a screen shot of a freshly loaded 13.1 failing together with the system details
P1160361.jpg

I should add the installation appears to execute normally, the above failure only occurs when trying to run the application, in this case standalone programmer.
 
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More likely you have a corrupted Windows XP system than all Intel/Altera downloads are damaged.
 

More likely you have a corrupted Windows XP system than all Intel/Altera downloads are damaged.

In what way are you suggesting XP is corrupt when everything else on it works, for example msoffice etc ? The downloads were done on two different machines with the same results!

Are you telling me you have personally downloaded 13.1 onto XP and have it working ?
 

Yes, I have been running Quartus 13.1 under XP for many years. Presently I'm using the 64-bit version under Windows 10 to support older FPGA series.
 

Yes, I have been running Quartus 13.1 under XP for many years. Presently I'm using the 64-bit version under Windows 10 to support older FPGA series.

Ahh thank you for being specific, maybe crossed wires I was talking about THIRTYTWO BIT machines running XP/SP3.

Maybe that is the problem, if you load 13.1 into a 64bit XP machine it works, but not a 32 bit XP machine ?
 

As far I'm aware of, there's no 64-bit code running with Quartus 13 under WinXP. But I didn't check specifically.

USB Blaster driver and JTAG stack components are definitely 32-bit.
 

Well what I can say now is Quartus 12.0/sp2 definitely runs under XP/sp3 on a 32 bit machine as I have had it running this afternoon thanks to a gift of said software from a kind person (AFIK the Intel site links are still broken) so at least I have been able to test my target hardware and usb byteblaster removing many uncertainties from the original Linux problem. I have also received some more information about that too and if I succeed in getting it going I will post another update here.
 

Ghaa to old to edit, anyway the Linux incantation to make USB-BLASTER work doesnt, here it is for anybody interested ----

create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules with the following contents:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666", NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c"

use lsusb to discover your particular device in case its different.
 

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