Quartus® Prime 16.0 and earlier do not support Red Hat Enterprise (RHE) 7 which requires an updated format for the udev rules for USB-Blaster and USB-Blaster II download cables.
If you are using RHE 7 or above use the updated udev rules below in the /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules file:
# USB-Blaster
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666"
# USB-Blaster II
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6810", MODE="0666"
This information will be added to a future release of the USB-Blaster II documention.