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Hi there-- you say you have run the ISE tools under Ubuntu. 
Could you provide any advice for me on how I might get this successfully
installed on my machine? I just started using Ubuntu at home and would very
much like to break free of my windows machine. I will be perfectly happy to
use the parallel JTAG cable, 150 bucks for a USB cable is ridiculous.
I cannot even get the install program to run for the 9.1i version, I get a
Bus error on line 30-something. 

I found a page in french describing how to install version 8.1i on Ubuntu
6.06 and tried to follow that (I'm also not picky about version, as long as
I get something that functions), but I keep getting a checksum error on the
.sh file. The page (translated of course) says that if you get a checksum
error you need to "continue" the download of the file, or re-download it,
neither of which work for me. 

Honestly, if it's the easiest way to go, I might just wipe out my machine
and start over with CentOS, but I'd rather be able to put it on Ubuntu since
I already have that up and running. 
Or perhaps I can try doing all of my VHDL editing in wine, and use this
sc3prog to do my JTAG programming?
Any insight is much appreciated,

Thanks,

Steve

Jeremy Fillingim wrote:
> 
> I have run the Xilinx ISE tools under both Ubuntu and Gentoo
> successfully for several years.
> 
> As mentioned above, the cable drivers are going to give you more
> trouble than anything else.
> 
> I have had no luck in getting the cable drivers to work with a 64-bit
> kernel. You also might want to pay attention to Xilinx's supported
> kernel version information with regard to these cable drivers, it may
> save you some sleep.
> 
> Also, the JTAG version of the programming cable has given me nothing
> but trouble, I'd avoid it if you have the choice.
> 
> On 1/31/07, Juan José 'Peco' San Martín <peco@m...> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 13:47 +0100, Gunnar Dahlgren wrote:
>> > Juan José 'Peco' San Martín wrote:
>> > > Hello all.
>> > >
>> > > I'm looking for a good FPGA develoment kit for Linux platform.
>> > >
>> > > I used some Xilinx FPGA and CPLDs using muy custom board and ISE
>> under
>> > > Microsoft. :-P
>> > > I also worked with Altera Nios dev Kit, but also forced to use
>> Quartus
>> > > under Microsoft :-P
>> > > Although both say that they sale the same software for Linux. It's
>> more
>> > > expensive and/or only for RedHat Enterprise! (and 32bits) :-PP
>> > >
>> > > Do you know any solution or alternative to this?.
>>
>> Many thanks to everybody for the answers. Most useful! :-)
>>
>> Peco
>>
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