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Are you sure you downloaded the Web Edition rather than Subscription Edition? I seem to remember downloading the wrong version a while back and when installing it asked me for a license. I have not seen that with any version of the Web Edition that I have installed (although I have not installed v10).
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Thanks for the suggestion. I uninstalled whatever I had on the machine and went through the web-edition setup. You can just select the programmer component instead of the whole set of modules. So far so good.
However when finally unfolded and installed the result is exactly the same as my previous attempt: It comes up with an "Evaluation Mode" window and select 1 of 3 options. 30day eval, but you can't actually program chips with it. Or auto web licence retrieval, except it won't connect to the web even though it was just downloaded from the web. Final option is a valid licence file, which I don't have.
This must be a bug surely. What's with the licence on a hardware programmer? The USB device programmer code is no good to you unless you are already committed to Altera FPGAs... I certainly don't want to install the entire design suite on our service laptops !
Also if I run it in 30 day evaluation mode and do Help/about (a fairly benign request) I still get "Internal error, subsystem Quit.... etc etc ... sys_mdb.dll could not be found", plus some stack trace stuff. After that it bombs out
Any ideas, anyone?
Grrr :-)
Pete
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