Currently within the Win4Lin session there is no network card,
hence no MAC address.
Flexlm seems to not like the winsock.dll that Win4Lin provides.
In the past someone had a problem with Flexlm and it turned out
that Flexlm was hardwired to require a certain feature that is
only in Winsock 2.0, even though it never seemed to actually
use that feature. Win4Lin uses the Winsock 1.1 interface.
This might be the problem. So we can say that Flexlm is broken
but that does not solve the problem for you. In a future Win4Lin
version will provide some kind of NIC access and/or allow the
use of the standard winsock.dll.
-David
Stephen Soltesz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install some vhdl software from Altera.com, Max+Plus II.
> Unfortunately a condition of the license is that I must tell either my MAC
> address or hard drive volume serial ID to receive a licence.dat file by
> email. (I expect that some checksum is calculated with the number I give
> them, and it is compared to the number on the machine I install the software
> on.)
>
> The hard drive volume serial id works for part of the software, but another
> more specific part requires that i know the NIC's MAC address. i know that
> win4lin uses magic to do networking.. and I tried my real ethernet mac
> address and that didn't work. I got an error from the Altera software saying
> what is on the attached .gif
>
> it seems to be a problem with winsock.dll Can anyone think of a way around
> this? or know what mac address win4lin would report if asked? it need not be
> real, I guess.
>
> Thank you,
> Stephen.
> --
> main(c,v)char*v;{!c?putchar(*v-1)&&main(0,v+1):main(0,"tpmuft{Avul/fev\v\1");}
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