Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:15:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPIB program? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970624090857.407A-100000@uhf.wdc.net> In-Reply-To: <199706240728.QAA23342@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> > > I have a national instruments GPIB card and I am trying to use it under > > > FreeBSD. I noticed the "gp" device, so I know there is at least a driver > > > that can be compiled into the kernl, but do we have a program in the ports > > > collection that talks to the driver and records the data? > > > > Fred Cawthorne (sp?) has a new version of his driver. I can send it to > > you if you want. It contains a library for acccessing the device. Thanks. Fred already wrote me, but he also figured out that my 1984 vintage card has a different controller, than his driver supports. > Just FWIW, NI have a a developer's kit for the PCI version of this > card. We were looking at it, but with their new PCI 32-bit DIO card, > I can't see us going that way. And I am not dragging my PCI machine to field tests. Unfortunately that means putting DOS on my 386 and using the DOS tools.. Oh well. > Regardless, if you need _fast_ GPIB, the DDK was ~US$500 with an NDA. I suspect we don't. The fastest test requires roughly one screen save/second, but that's only looking into the far far future. Of immediate need is to just do single screen saves on a network analyzer. Thanks. Bernie
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