Re: GPIB communication

[Andreas Letsch <letsch@ifsw.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Hi Stephane,

you should send this problem to linux-gpib-general@lists.sourceforge.net

I had also problems to get my card to work and they helped me to solve
the problem,

regards,
Andreas



Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 18:37 +0200 schrieb Stephane Barland:
> 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 
> 
>