New Contributor
New Contributor1. Generated a license from this place: https://licensing.intel.com/psg/s/sales-signup-evaluationlicenses using my Nic (Physical Address without dashes - 12digit) , made sure it was Ethernet nic, not wifi nic,
2. Looked all over how to downoad the file... Finally after one hour, I realized that pressing "Generate License" it actually sends the file to my email (!), the notification " blah blah blah blah license was sent to your email" was too fast to read first place.
3. placed the .dat file in a folder in C:
4. Pointed Quartus to that file in Setup License
5. Hit Win, Search, "System Variables", window labeled "System Properties" opened, clicked "Environmental Variables", I set up a New one labelled "INTEL_LICENSE_FILE" pointing to the dat file, pressed ok.
6. Restarted.
Nothing. Again the same error message:
"Unable to checkout a license. Make sure your license file environment variable (e.g., LM_LICENSE_FILE) is set correctly and then run 'lmutil lmdiag' to diagnose the problem."
I have to try this in another computer out of my work network, just in case that our server complicates communication, but I don't think that's the case.
Why should you Intel have done all these SO much complicated? I m almost going to uninstall everything, install previous version with Modelsim and forget all about that. These lost hours should be productive, not the opposite.
PS. By the way, , you gave a link (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-set-intel-license-file-environment-variable_ that is wrong. I think the correct one is this one: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/troubleshooting/how-to-set-intel-license-file-environment-variable.html
