From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 19 19:41:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25355 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:41:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldyeller.comtest.com (oahu-136.u.aloha.net [207.12.0.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25256 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Received: from graphics.comtest.com (graphics.comtest.com [206.127.245.194]) by oldyeller.comtest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA24973; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:17:28 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Message-Id: <199810200217.QAA24973@oldyeller.comtest.com> From: "Randal S. Masutani" Organization: ComTest Technologies, Inc. To: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:34:21 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: new GPIB driver revision available Reply-to: randal@comtest.com CC: John Galbraith , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, john@ece1.ece.arizona.edu References: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:58:02 PDT." <199810191858.LAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com> In-reply-to: <20225.908823898@critter.freebsd.dk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 19 Oct 98, at 21:04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199810191858.LAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> > >> Hi John, > >> > >> Sorry for pestering you with this, I've found a card at a reasonable > >> price which says "hardware compatible with NI-GPIB PCIIA", do you > >> think your driver would run that card ? > > > >Does it have an NI TNT chip on it? The "old" NI GPIB cards used the TI > >GPIB controller chip, and I don't think John's driver will work (well, > >if at all) with that. > > > >There's actually four different NI cards; the really old NEC-based > >ones, the TI based ones, the TI based ones with the GPIB accelerator > >chip and the TNT based cards. > > And what I'm trying to figure out is "If I tell my client to call the > Danish rep for Nat.Inst, what should he tell them that he wants to buy ?" I would recommend the NI ATGPIB/TNT boards if he can afford it. The TNT cards work the best with Johns drivers. Randal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message