Installing a new FLEXid=10 USB keylock and drivers

NOTE: For previous versions, please visit https://www.aldec.com/en/support/resources/documentation/articles/1245.

If your Active-HDL, Riviera-PRO, ALINT, HES/DVM or Netlist Converter license is issued for a USB FLEXid keylock or dongle (license file contains reference to flexid=10 in the server line), installing the drivers may be necessary. Read Verifying Driver Installation below to check if you need to install the driver.

NOTE: USB FLEXid keylocks are labeled with a FLEXid number, in the format FLEXid=10-xxxxxxxx, where x is a hexadecimal number. The FLEXid=10 (WIBU) is blue, as shown below:

Figure 1. An USB keylock.

Drivers

Active-HDL installation comes with the compartible FLEXid driver. The zip file containing the driver can be found by going to Active-HDL's intall folder and then license/drivers.

The following table display the downloads for the latest drivers. If you do not have the latest version of software, you may need to download an older version that's compatible. You can find older versions here under Licensing Software: https://www.aldec.com/downloads/archived_builds

Platform	FLEXid	Download Location
Red Hat®, CentOS, and SUSE® Linux 64-bit	10	https://www.aldec.com/en/downloads/13168
Microsoft® Windows® 64-bit	10	https://www.aldec.com/en/downloads/13167

NOTE: Please refer to fnpdig.pdf located under https://www.aldec.com/en/downloads/13164 for installation instructions.

Windows

Simply double-click Setup.exe and complete the wizard. All default settings and options are acceptable.

Linux

Follow one of below sections depending on the distribution in use:

Debian, Ubuntu

sudo alien WkRt-Lin-6.60.4820-500.x86_64.rpm
sudo dpkg -i wkrt-lin_6.60.4820-500_amd64.deb

RedHat, SUSE, CentOS

rpm -i WkRt-Lin-6.60.4820-500.x86_64.rpm

Verifying Driver Installation

To verify the driver installation on Linux or Windows, invoke the lmutil program with the following parameters:

./lmutil lmhostid -flexid

If the driver is installed correctly you should see the message as shown below:

The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is "FLEXid=10-0bebc48a".

The lmutil tool can be found when you download the License Daemon that corresponds to your machine:

Windows

https://www.aldec.com/en/downloads/13170

Linux

https://www.aldec.com/en/downloads/13169