Still looking - Solaris drivers for GPIB board.

[Dave]

I am still looking for the Solaris (SPARC) drivers for a PCI based
National Instruments GPIB board. Anyone have them spare?

This is for a *home* project (not a professional one), comparing one
oscillator (quarts) against another (rubidium) for stability. As such, I
am unable to justify the cost of the drivers from National Instruments.

(They are more expensive than the card, although I did not buy the card
new. In fact, if I was to buy the drivers new, they would cost me more
than the card and the time inerval counter I will use to compare the two
oscillators).

I'm sure someone must have them sitting around and not using them. I've
looked on eBay, but have drawn a blank.

If you can help in any way, please drop me an email to:

http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/myemail.jpg

 

[John Miles]

If you can help in any way, please drop me an email to:

http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/myemail.jpg

I've tried sending email to .jpgs before, but Adriana Lima still won't
reply. I think she's avoiding me.

-- jm

 

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

This is for a *home* project (not a professional one), comparing one
oscillator (quarts) against another (rubidium) for stability. As such, I
am unable to justify the cost of the drivers from National Instruments.

Resign, Go with the flow:

Get the absolute cheapest Windows XP PeeCee that can possibly run the Card,
VIA Epia f.ex. are Neat, or steal one out of a dumpster.

Set up a suitable proxy to run the card over TCP/IP, hide the Win-XP box
somewhere where it cannot be seen from the Solaris box and pretend to be
pure in spirit.

 

[[email protected]]

Does this help?

http://www.esrf.fr/computing/expg/subgroups/icntl/guides/io/gpib/nilan.html

Cheers,

Ram

 

[Carl Lowenstein]

Does this help?

http://www.esrf.fr/computing/expg/subgroups/icntl/guides/io/gpib/nilan.html

Isn't that software for controling a $500 piece of external hardware that
comes from National Instruments? The hardware looks to me like an
Ethernet to HPIB bridge.

< http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/2421 >

carl

 

[Dave]

Resign, Go with the flow:

Get the absolute cheapest Windows XP PeeCee that can possibly run the Card,
VIA Epia f.ex. are Neat, or steal one out of a dumpster.

Set up a suitable proxy to run the card over TCP/IP, hide the Win-XP box
somewhere where it cannot be seen from the Solaris box and pretend to be
pure in spirit.

Thanks, but none of this is necessary now - I found the drivers in
Labview will work independatly of it, so I'm not tied to using labview,
although I might well learn that for future use. But someone sent me a
bit of C code to control the instrument I have, and it seems to work OK
(after a few changes, as he used OpenBSD, and I'm using Solaris).