LAN and wireless ethernet Card

[msiva1981]

Hi,
I had a LAN Connection in office and recently bought a wireless router at home and have wireless at home. Now when i try to start Pro E, it crashes with the error message
"License file does not support this version" I am running a license server on my laptop
Can someone help?
Siva

 

[Youknows]

Its better for you to go to command prompt and write ipconfig/all and note down the MAC address of wireless and genrate the license again and go into to folder flexnet>bin and reconfigure the license server again. Similarly after doing this go to Pro-Engineer folder then Bin folder and reconfigure the license file. I hope this will work

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[msiva1981]

Thank you youknows. I did that. I get an error stating "License file does not support this version" I do not know wats going on
Could you help?
Siva

 

[msiva1981]

The complete error message is
"License request failed for feature PROE_200:-21"
License file does not support this version.


Thanks
Siva

 

[orac]

You don't have to generate a new license.


The problem is caused by a different order of the network interfaces. By adding a wireless card to your PC you have a chance thatthe wireless card comes first in the network interface list. The license server is always connected to the first network interface in this list. It doesn't help to generate a new license for the 'new' MAC address of your wireless card as then the license server will only work when your connected to a wireless network. Instead you can change the order of the network interfaces in the Windows registry (I haven't found any other way to do this besides manipulating the registry directly, no Windows commands seem to be effective).


Start aregistry editor by typing "regedit" in the Run entry field (you get this if you press the "Start" button on the taskbar and then "Run").


Now for XP (and probably Vista also) go to


My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards


You'll see a list here e.g. 12 2 5


12 comes before 2 as only the first number is looked at, so 1 comes before 2.


Take a look which of these cards is your wireless card e.g. 12 and which of these cards is your 'fixed' network card e.g. 5


Now rename the list ( 2 -> 3, 12 -> 2, 5 -> 1)


Renaming can be done by selecting the number (12 2 5) and then pressing the F2 button.


After doing this you need to completely shutdown your machine (i.e. power off). And yes the power HAS to be off, a simple reboot won't do it as then only a warm reboot occurs and the initialization of the network cards is not done correctly.


After powering up your machine again you should see that the hostid you now get when executing ptchostid (e.g. from a command prompt) is the hostid your license server has been using before.


Be careful when manipulating the registry as you can very easily damage your Windows installation by making mistakes.


Hope this helps.


Best regards,


John Bijnens
Edited by: orac

 

[msiva1981]

Hi orac,
Thanks for the info. I disabled my wireless network card and installed my license. It works great now.
I think i shall deactivate my wireless card whenever needed
Thanks for the time and info again
Siva

 

[deedub777]

Hello orac,


I've been looking for a solution to this for ages. Tried this last night and worked fine.

Cheers

You don't have to generate a new license.


The problem is caused by a different order of the network interfaces. By adding a wireless card to your PC you have a chance thatthe wireless card comes first in the network interface list. The license server is always connected to the first network interface in this list. It doesn't help to generate a new license for the 'new' MAC address of your wireless card as then the license server will only work when your connected to a wireless network. Instead you can change the order of the network interfaces in the Windows registry (I haven't found any other way to do this besides manipulating the registry directly, no Windows commands seem to be effective).


Start aregistry editor by typing "regedit" in the Run entry field (you get this if you press the "Start" button on the taskbar and then "Run").


Now for XP (and probably Vista also) go to


My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards


You'll see a list here e.g. 12 2 5


12 comes before 2 as only the first number is looked at, so 1 comes before 2.


Take a look which of these cards is your wireless card e.g. 12 and which of these cards is your 'fixed' network card e.g. 5


Now rename the list ( 2 -> 3, 12 -> 2, 5 -> 1)


Renaming can be done by selecting the number (12 2 5) and then pressing the F2 button.


After doing this you need to completely shutdown your machine (i.e. power off). And yes the power HAS to be off, a simple reboot won't do it as then only a warm reboot occurs and the initialization of the network cards is not done correctly.


After powering up your machine again you should see that the hostid you now get when executing ptchostid (e.g. from a command prompt) is the hostid your license server has been using before.


Be careful when manipulating the registry as you can very easily damage your Windows installation by making mistakes.


Hope this helps.


Best regards,


John Bijnens

 

[pjw]

i would agree with this. This has usually always been my problem with installing Pro/E when more than one network card is installed on the computer.


Incindentally, has anyone used the Microsoft Loopback Adaptor successfully in the absence of a network card?