KVR Audio

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:52 pm

Seeing as I'm no longer running a network I thought I'd disable my Ethernet port.

However, when I open my DAW it's unable to authorise anything by Waves.

Has anybody else come across this?

soulone82 · Post by **soulone82** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:59 pm

Before disabling the ethernet port make sure to send the licenses to the cloud. After you´ve disabled the port move them back to your computer.

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:04 pm

soulone82 wrote:Before disabling the ethernet port make sure to send the licenses to the cloud. After you´ve disabled the port move them back to your computer.

That's what I thought too and did just this.
Didn't make a difference

Will try again tomorrow though.
Maybe I didn't send to the cloud before disabling.

simon.a.billington · Post by **simon.a.billington** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:19 pm

The Waves Licensing Centre uses Internet authorisation.

I'm guessing you're disabling the Ethernet because you have wifi. I don't think its that simple because I'm sure their verification scheme requires the MAC Address which is attatched to your network card.

Deactivate your card and I'm thinking you deactivate your MAC address.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:39 pm

The MAC address of the NIC is the key Waves is using for authorization. Disabling the NIC or installing a new virtual NIC (like with VMWare) can break the whole Wave authorization scheme.
So, yes.. move the licenses back to the Waves license cloud before disabling a interface is highly recommended.

I don't know if there is some fallback mechanism if no NIC is available. Maybe that Waves is using instead some other hardware device id or some unique ID provided by the operating system.

Ryan99 · Post by **Ryan99** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:30 am

I had this problem once. I contacted Waves and they told me I better put my licenses on a USB stick, since I could lose them again with the repetitive change of the MAC address.

jdnz · Post by **jdnz** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:52 am

Ryan99 wrote:I had this problem once. I contacted Waves and they told me I better put my licenses on a USB stick, since I could lose them again with the repetitive change of the MAC address.

doesn't have to be a stick either - I've got them activated against my usb external HDD (which is always plugged into the desktop), works fine!

chroma · Post by **chroma** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:57 pm

i highly recommend this if you don't already have something to use:

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Lo ... B005FYNSZA

you will barely even know it's there...

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:59 pm

chroma wrote:i highly recommend this if you don't already have something to use:

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Lo ... B005FYNSZA

you will barely even know it's there...

Ha. Funny, I have the exact same one for my car stereo.

I don't really want yet another thing sticking out of my PC though. Not that this is big but I don't have any USB ports left... And I'd rather not use a hub.

Ameyah · Post by **Ameyah** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:20 pm

Its a miracle how they could use the ethernet card or the USB memory ofr that?

Why not read out the boot HDD/SSD volume number and use that? Everybody has one and its hardly changed.

I have no Ethernet card, since i have a notebook. And USB Memory is also not funy with only 2 available. Very Smart move. Also on a retro spective, Cloud doesnt work anymore on this older versions.

And virtual ethernet, USB drive does also not work on windows 10.

The virtual USB HDD trick doesnt work either anymore, since now USB HDDs are recognized as HDDs and no longer as Pendrives.

Waves, so stupid ...

muki · Post by **muki** » Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:39 pm

Ameyah wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:20 pm Why not read out the boot HDD/SSD volume number and use that?

because they do get changed
drive updates are not that uncommon

ethernet, wlan, bluetooth, firewire prts are the only fix installed machine dependent ID's they can use for authorizing

back in the days, be it with SGI there war PID aka processor ID
(doesn't work nowadays - probably becase of mass marketw...)

Ameyah · Post by **Ameyah** » Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:36 am

muki wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:39 pm
Ameyah wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:20 pm Why not read out the boot HDD/SSD volume number and use that?
because they do get changed
drive updates are not that uncommon

ethernet, wlan, bluetooth, firewire prts are the only fix installed machine dependent ID's they can use for authorizing

back in the days, be it with SGI there war PID aka processor ID
(doesn't work nowadays - probably becase of mass marketw...)

the OS drive gets hardly changed, it will last 3-4 years. What i mean is that everybody has OS drive in some way, but not everybody has enogh USB ports and/or an ethernet card. See my point?
But what about ppl with no ethernet card? and only 2 damn USB slots?

I am so glad WAVES got rid of this shitty authorization idea. BTW in 2015 i had also only a notebook with no ethernet card and 3 USB ports.

Anyway i found a new version, luckily the net never forgets ...

Waves doesn't allow me to disable my Ethernet port. Why?