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:

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[John Miles]

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

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[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

Post by Dave
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.

[Dave]

Post by Frithiof Andreas Jensen

Post by Dave
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.

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).

[r***@olf.com]

Does this help?

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

Cheers,

Ram

[Carl Lowenstein]

Post by r***@olf.com
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