Hello,
currently I try to install the Platform cable USB under Linux. The machine is a Core 2 Duo E6600 with an Intel 795XBX-based board. I use Centos4.4/i386 (so something similar like RHEL4) with ISE 8.1i SP3. The Platform Cable USB is the Low Power version. I compiled the drivers for the 2.6 kernel like described in the Answer Record. I also got the newest firmware (v 1023) from the ftp servers. When I start impact the cable gots recognized. Firmware v. 1023 is loaded from disk (as shown at the console) and auto-recognition also finds my USB Platform Cable. dmesg output seems fine, both kernel modules are loaded. So far so good...
But then: Impact then tells that the FW-Version of the Cable is 1023, CPLD version is 0006 and CPLD is 0000. But it wants to update the firmware version in its 10-to-30-minute upgrade-odysse, which is an action I don't understand since the firmware is up to date. This happens all the time I start Impact...
After flashing the "new" FW and some cups of coffee later, scanning for the JTAG-Chain on a ML410 takes forever and I usually quit Impact. While scanning, it prints some ...Version 0000... and so on at the console.
Anyone got an Idea? Please don't tell to switch to Windows (everything works under XP 32bit, so no bad Cable), since we currently only have XP-x64 for this machine which is not supported by the Xilinx-Tools...
Christian.