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8 years ago

aoc cannot find valid licences file

Hello. I'm trying out compiling Altera OpenCL on a new workstation. After acquiring the license file and installing Quartus II and OpenCL SDK. I tried to compile some OpenCL. But aoc refuses to d...
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8 years ago

I have requested service from TerasIC (my board's manufacturer). They renewed the licences. But It still doesn't work. And they ended up advising me to run Windows instead of Ubuntu. Really!? WTF.

Maybe it is a problem with eth0. Newer Linux systems uses predictable network interface names. Which replaces eth0 with something like enp6.

I have tried linking /dev/eth0 to /dev/enp6. Unfortunately it does not work.

But his issue shouldn't exist in v 16. It should have need fixed long time ago.

--Edit

I found this in the knowledge base. You can disable PNIN or create a dummy interface.

https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/embedded/2017/why-quartus-opencl-license-doesnt-work-on-centos-7-x-.html

This solved my problem.