Re: GPIB communication

[Stephane Barland <stephane.barland@gmail.com>]

Ok, replying to myself: sorry for the noise, it was a hardware problem.
Inserting the card in another machine (to check it) and back in the
original one solved the problem. Talk about a hardware hacker :(...

Regards, 

Stephane

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:37 +0200, Stephane Barland 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 
> 
>