Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Gerry Swislow <[email protected]> · Mon, 20 Feb 95 14:53:31 -0500

Mark Engbretson writes:

> there are a number of PC devices which we currently use
> that the manufacturer only provides device drivers or
> library support to the end user. (National Instruments
> is an example.) This does not port to Linux, and NI shows
> little or no interest in giving out the specifications on
> how to manipulate their devices on a register by register
> basis. (Ask Gerry . . .)

Check out beaver.chemie.fu-berlin.de:/pub/linux/IEEE488.  There is a  
rather large package of stuff in that directory that purports to support  
the Nat Inst AT-GPIB card on linux.  I have not used that package yet.   
The code is based on the ESP488 stuff from Nat Inst.  Adding support for  
the Nat Inst AT-GPIB card under spec on linux is high on my list of things  
to do.  Not sure whether it will be using the driver in that package or  
whether I'll put together something myself from the ESP files.

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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