[Wine]Sentinel Driver

[Thomas Serries]

Hello Vince,

we've got the same problem with some of our applications using Sentinel
SuperPro dongles.

Our investigations showed, that there might be a way for running theses
applications unter wine, as the sentinel dongle protection is technically
realized as TCP/IP communication between the application and a "dongle
server" (part of the dongle driver provided by safenet). Atleast for our
applications the dongle server is the reason for all "evil".

Safenet provides linux drivers (and daemons) for parallel port und USB
dongle on thier web-site for download
(http://www.safenet-inc.com/support/tech/sentinel.asp). As there is
currently not support for RedHat Linux 4 we could not test this approach
ourselves. But we beliefe, that this is a promissing approach.

Maybe you've got more luck.

Thomas

>I was afraid something like that would be the case,
>however I wasn't aware of the specifics.  Right now we
>have it on a windows server so I guess it will stay
>there.
>Thank you for the information.
>
>Vince~
>
>> Wine can't load hardware drivers running in Ring 0.
>> A .vxd or .sys needs to
>> run in Ring 0 to access the Hardware. Either the
>> programm also runs on
>> win9x, without a driver doing direct hardware
>> access, which wine can
>> "emulate". Or you have a access to the driver
>> interface definition and you
>> reprogram it with unix means.
>> However "sntnlusb.vxd" seems to do something USB
>> related, not related to the
>> parallel port access, so you are not even at the
>> source of the problem. You
>> will get to the next problem if you fake a
>> successfull sntnlusb.vxd loading
>> and then reply to all calls to sntnlusb.vxd in a way
>> that the application
>> gets told that there is no USB hardware.
>>
>> But these things are not for the faint harted
>>
>> Bye
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