[comp.sys.sun] National Instruments GPIB-SPARC1-S / NI-488M

pal@alux5.att.com (Paul Arthur Layman) (01/25/91)

Does anyone have any experience using this interface on a Sparc-1 and
SunOS 4.1?  I had it running under 4.0.3 but have had no success with 4.1.
Please reply to p.a.layman@att.att.com .

Thanks in advance,
Paul

jeffz@corp.sun.com (Jeffrey Zank - SBus Software) (03/16/91)

| Does anyone have any experience using this interface on a Sparc-1 and
| SunOS 4.1?  I had it running under 4.0.3 but have had no success with 4.1.

There are no technical reasons for why this would not work.  Their are no
real differences between the 2 SunOS releases in this area that could
effect this.  Call National and ask them what's up, i'm sure that they
would like to hear about this.

-jeffz-

markb@solbourne.com (Mark Bradley) (03/23/91)

In article <1906@brchh104.bnr.ca> jeffz@corp.sun.com (Jeffrey Zank - SBus Software) writes:
>| Does anyone have any experience using this interface on a Sparc-1 and
>| SunOS 4.1?  I had it running under 4.0.3 but have had no success with 4.1.
>
>There are no technical reasons for why this would not work.  Their are no
>real differences between the 2 SunOS releases in this area that could
>effect this.  Call National and ask them what's up, i'm sure that they
>would like to hear about this.

Not necessarily so.  The tools supplied by National Instruments may be a
culprit, as in their original "unix" implementation, they expected certain
kernel structures.  If they did not exist (like string tables at the end
our Irix kernel), then the tools did not work.

Mark Bradley   (DoD#1100)		  Faster, faster, until the thrill
I/O Subsystems				of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Solbourne Computer, Inc.			--Hunter S. Thompson

mh@roger.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman) (03/23/91)

I had this same problem on a Sparcserver.  In my case I needed a new
version of their driver. I don't know why but that was the case.  Contact
National Instruments-they are pretty reasonable about upgrades. They are
in many cases free if you send the old version back.