Trying to get license server working - host ID problem

[thomwickes]

I'm trying to get shake 4 working under fedora 7 - it was working a month or two back but for some reason isn't working anymore - something to do with my network configuration.

When I run the FlexLM licence utility it tells that the host ID of my machine is " "

whereas beforre it actually gave me a host ID and it worked ok...

when i use ifconfig -a it shows me the HWaddr for 'lan' is 00:19:B9:61:D9:69 but I can't see eth0 on there like I used to. I recently updated the kernel and now all my network stuff is screwed up - I can't get ndiswrapper working anymore either...

if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated

[Ed Leaver]

Hi. Last time I looked, FlexLM's lmhostid utility program returned the HWaddr for eth0. Do you have lmhostid? What does it say? Also, you might check to see if you've an ipv6 address: cat /proc/net/if_inet6. Does it give anything other than zero? If you squint really hard, the "eth0" line should have stuff similar to the inet4 HWaddr given by ifconfig -a.
(I know this isn't much help, but its what I know..."

[thomwickes]

i think the problem is i'm not seeing eth0 anywhere... which is weird.

[thom@twlaptop1 ~]$ cat /proc/net/if_inet6
00000000000000000000000000000001 01 80 10 80 lo
fe800000000000000219b9fffe61d969 02 40 20 80 lan


the lmhostid just says this:

[root@twlaptop1 thom]# /usr/shake4/lmutil lmhostid
lmutil - Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""

hmmmm....

[Ed Leaver]

Well, as you have no doubt surmised, its a safe bet that the code used by lmhostid to determine your host id is the same as the code FlexLM uses to check against your shake license. So until you can get your networking back in order with its original eth0 HWaddr, you won't start. But no, I don't know why your network is south. (Sorry, perhaps someone else has a wild guess.)

[thomwickes]

Yep, since I updated the kernel everythings screwed up - no signs of eth0 or wlan0... just lan and wan...

if anyone has any suggestions it would be most helpful

[Ed Leaver]

Hmmm. New kernel, broken network... You haven't by any chance tried your old kernel, see if it still works? (It should be available on your grub's boot menu at system startup; if it works you can make it the default boot kernel by editing one character in /boot/grub/grub.conf)

[thomwickes]

Yeah, I am actually using the old kernel again - I had to boot to the old kernel to get my graphics card working properly again but the network stuff is keeping the changes. gah!!