Re: GPIB communication
Hi Stephane,
Why not use the native gpib driver from National Instruments?
(can be downloaded from their website)
The only problem is that it only supports kernel 2.4.
Greetings Rob
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:37:09 +0200
Stephane Barland <stephane.barland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to acquire data from various lab equipment through the GPIB
> interface. Using sarge (stock kernel 2.6.8-2-686), I installed the
> gpib-modules-source package and compiled it (with module-assistant),
> which went fine. The card (National Instruments PCI-GPIB) is apparently
> correctly configured (no error message from gpib_config). Using either
> ibtest or the python bindings for libgpib, I can send data to the
> instruments. This works. However, if I try to read from any instrument
> (both with ibtest of from a python shell) the computer simply reboots.
> I did not find anything in the logs which could help since the reboot is
> really instantaneous...
>
> Any hint?
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephane
>
>
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