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Date:      Thu, 25 May 1995 10:59:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: National Instruments TNT4882C driver
Message-ID:  <199505251459.KAA02765@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505250626.PAA18614@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 25, 95 03:56:17 pm

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Michael Smith writes:
> 
> I remember hearing from someone a while ago about a driver for the
> NI TNT4882C chip (High-speed IEEE 488 part).  Anyone have a reference
> for this, or a pointer to the author(s)?
> 
> In particular, I'm curious to know how fast they manage to get it to go,
> and, presuming NI do a PCI version of the board (which would make a lot
> of sense), how much faster it could be convinced to go 8)
> 

I don't know if this is the what you want, but Fred Cawthorne's
(fcawth@delphi.umd.edu) gpib driver in /sys/i386/isa/gpib.c says:

> * GPIB driver for FreeBSD.
> * Version 0.1 (No interrupts, no DMA)
> * Supports National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT boards.
> * (AT-GPIB not tested, but it should work)

which at least says "TNT" in it. It also says:

> * Version 0.1 (No interrupts, no DMA)

so it could use a few days of work.  I don't know how much use it gets.

Peter

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