From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 24 06:17:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA13920 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 06:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uhf.wdc.net (uhf.wdc.net [198.147.74.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA13891 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 06:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bad@localhost) by uhf.wdc.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA00820; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:16:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:15:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Doehner To: Michael Smith cc: Thomas Gellekum , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPIB program? In-Reply-To: <199706240728.QAA23342@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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