We have XSI 7 running on Linux and Windows 7 with dongle license. In windows 7 the dongle is recognized without any driver installation. I believe you need to put your license file in SPM folder.
Best, Cristiano Cristiano Policarpo BaloOm Animation Studios www.baloom.co --- PoustEx - CG Animated Short Film www.poustex.com On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Robert Kjettrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I know i am a bit behind on my softimage license, v7.0.1, and from today i > even cant upgrade it anymore... well havnt been able to for a long time :-( > > My more pressing problem though is i want to keep using this fine version, > but im moving to a new workstation running windows 8.1, and im having trouble > to get my USB ibutton dongle to be seen by the license manager. > > I have installed the 64bit drivers from here: > http://www.maximintegrated.com/products/ibutton/software/tmex/download_drivers.cfm > but the license manager just wont see the dongle. > > I can see on my former workstation that it is also a totally different USB > device driver that is installed on that, so maybe it is just the wrong driver > i have installed. > > so... Does any of you here on the list have the driver that was supplied by > Avid for the dongle, i just cant find it in between all my softimage > installer files. > > ...or is there some issues with softimage v7 and windows 8? > > I really dont hope i have to give up this nice software just now, although i > only have an aging version, it is still nicer and more fun to use than most > other 3d apps. > > > Robert >

