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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Anybody using gp driver?
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Gerrit K?hn wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:48:59AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > : Oops, is it /that/ bad?
> 
> > I can't convince myself that it would have any chance of working.
> > That's why I asked.
> 
> Hm, doesn't sound very promising then. :)

John Galbraith wrote a driver for National Instruments'
AT-GPIB/TNT and AT-GPIB cards a few years ago.  It 
reportedly was much better than the driver in the tree.
I don't know whatever happen to his code.

> 
> > : Well, as I said above: I'm not using it so far, but given some time I may be
> > : able to find out if it's still working.
> 
> > Please let me know if you succeed.
> 
> BTW: Are there more people around (except for you and me :-) who would like 
> to see decent gpib-support in FreeBSD?i

See the mailing list archives for people who have discussed the
gpib driver in the past.

-- 
Steve