Running soft with flexlm MAC based license under wine?

[An Metet]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote:
| When I try to run the FlexLM protected (with NIC MAC based licecnse) software
| under wine (Linux) I get the following messages:
| fixme:win32:DeviceIoControl Unimplemented control 256 for VxD device VNETBIOS
| fixme:win32:DeviceIoControl Unimplemented control 256 for VxD device VNETBIOS
| fixme:win32:DeviceIoControl Unimplemented control 256 for VxD device VNETBIOS
| And finally the program doesn't start because it is not able to check the
| license.
| Is it possible to write a fake VNETBIOS VxD to make such software working
| with wine? (Probably it could be even possible to provide it with MAC
| address as a parameter... ;-)

Probably you need not the fake VNETBIOS VxD, but the fake NIC driver with
selectable MAC address.
It can be easily done in Linux (for details see:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=53368b1ce33a9aa151c15d2bf674f3ce%40mixmaster.shinn.net
)
I think that it could be done for wine (or even Windows itself) as well, but
I don't know exactly how to do it.
BTW. This method would fail if flexlm accesses the NIC's PROM directly.

Hope this helps