Comments on: Vivado 2014.1 / Linux Ubuntu 14.04 license activation notes

By: Steve Kerrison

Steve Kerrison — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 10:53:02 +0000

My Dell XPS13 2015 has no LAN NIC, and VLM wasn’t picking up a MAC address from my wireless card.

I also have KVM installed, so perhaps it was seeing the network device virbr0 and giving up. In any case, wlan0 wasn’t doing the job. I fixed this by renaming the interface in udev, by changing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

from:

SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:11:22:33:44:55″, ATTR{dev_id}==”0x0″, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”wlan*”, NAME=”wlan0″

to:

SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:11:22:33:44:55″, ATTR{dev_id}==”0x0″, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”wlan*”, NAME=”eth0″

So just change the NAME field. That would then generate a type 2 node ID. I also removed some pending license requests using xlic{client,srvr}mgr -l to find the sequence numbers and then xlic{client,srvr}mgr -zz 1234

One or both of these activities fixed the problem!

By: Uno

Uno — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:01:22 +0000

Fake NIC doesn’t appear to work anymore with Vivado 2015.01 and 2015.02 :(
umn1 through 4 remain empty

By: xyz

xyz — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:11:12 +0000

Very good information! really helpful

By: Adam Gregory

Adam Gregory — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:37:59 +0000

Thanks so much for posting that! I had the same problem activating version 2015.3 on Fedora 22

By: Christophe Bobda

Christophe Bobda — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:01:23 +0000

Thanks a lot.
I had the same issue and this guide helped me solve it.

By: Eldar

Eldar — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:22:23 +0000

Wow great thanks for this post!!
Once i had a lxc container. I read that the problem will occur using virtual machine.