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WAsP – the Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program |
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WAsP – the Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program |
WAsP 8.3 will not perform calculations unless a valid licence is installed. Because of the problems experienced by some users with the version 7 licencing system (the machine code ID changed more often than we expected), we have introduced an alternative mechanism which we hope will simplify matters greatly.
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Together with the WAsP 8 package, you will receive a hardware 'dongle' for your parallel port, and a licence code which matches the dongle. You no longer need to email to us to receive a licence code, and you can swap the dongle around among different machines. |
First, install the WAsP 8 software as described in the WAsP 8 Installation topic. Next, insert the hardware dongle in the PC's printer port. Go to Programs in the Start menu, and launch the program called 'Risoe Licence Manager' from the folder WAsP\Licencing.
The Licence Manager will show a list of currently installed licences. If you have previously installed a WAsP 7.0 licence, then it will appear here. You can safely proceed: the existing licence information will not be overwritten.
Click the middle tab on the window to show the page called 'Get the ID code':
If the dongle has been successfully recognised, then a code should appear in the Dongle ID box. If not, then the words 'No dongle is attached' will appear. Click the right-hand tab on the window to show the page called 'Install a product licence'. Type in the user name and licence unlock code which was supplied with the dongle:
Type in the user name and licence unlock code which was supplied with the dongle – exactly as it is written by Risø DTU; including spaces, special characters and punctuation marks. Press Install. A message box should appear saying: 'Good. The licence was successfully installed':
Click on the left-hand tab on the window to show the page called 'View installed licences':
One item in the list should say 'WAsP 8.3 licenced to [your user name] (by dongle)'. If you have already installed a machine-ID WAsP 7 licence, then there will be two entries for WAsP on the list.
When the user name and license unlock code have been entered correctly, the full functionality of WAsP 8 can be utilised. The User Name can be displayed any time in the WAsP Help menu under the menu point WAsP on this computer...
Using a dongle, it's possible to install the software for use on more than one computer. You need to go through the licencing procedure described above on each computer, but after that chore has been performed, you can switch between using the software on different computers.
If the Dongle ID box in the licence manger program shows the words 'No dongle is attached', then something is amiss. Check that the dongle is correctly inserted in the parallel port. If that is not the problem then try re-running the installation program. Make sure that all Risø DTU software is closed before running the installation. If the computer still doesn't see the dongle, then please contact WAsP technical at waspsupport@risoe.dk. We will need to do some further investigations.
WAsP checks the licence status when it starts, and remembers it thereafter: the startup licence status is actually displayed in the main window title bar. If you add the dongle while WAsP is already running, the licence status is not updated, even though if you check in the 'WAsP on this computer' dialog box, the dongle licence will have been recognised immediately. You need to restart WAsP after inserting the dongle in order to refresh the licence status.
We're using a dongle called HASP from a company called Aladdin. According to their technical support web pages, there is a chance that on some systems, using the dongle with a printer may cause problems. You can find more information on their support pages at http://www.ealaddin.com/.
If the installation fails, and shows you a message box with error number 2744 or 1722, then it's probably because your machine al-ready has the device drivers for HASP dongles installed, and the installation cannot replace them.
Please try the following – or contact your system administrator and ask him/her to try it for you. Don't proceed unless you're confident that you can perform all these steps. If in doubt, then please contact waspsupport@risoe.dk for more help.
When the WAsP installation has finished, you may want to re-install your HAsP drivers again, to ensure that you have the latest version. If you don't have the originally downloaded file, you can get it again from the Aladdin web-pages at http://www.ealaddin.com/support/hasp/enduser.asp#latestdd
Please report any difficulties to waspsupport@risoe.dk, even if you manage to work around them yourself. Then we will be able to try to fix them before the next release.
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