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

Drivers can be obtained from the following locations:

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