Using Agilent 82357a with Labview

[Geico Caveman]

Is it possible to use Agilent 82357a USB-GPIB interface board with Labview
Linux version 7 ?

[Nick_CH]

Hi Geico,

The version of labview is not really important is this case. What it is important, it is to know if there is a supported driver for you GPIB-USB for Linux. The best answer can be found on : GPIB Installation/Configuration Troubleshooter

Best regards,
Nick_CH

[Dennis_Knutson]

Nick,

That link is for NI GPIB products and Geico says he has an Agilent device.

Geico,

You should really check with Agilent to see if they have a Linux driver. I couldn't find one listed. If you can get a driver from them for Linux and get it working, then using it with LabVIEW should be possible.

[m-s]

Thanks guys. Will ask Agilent about this.

[m-s]

Hello,

It just occured to me that linux-gpib offers a linux driver for agilent (http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net). Can this be somehow used with labview ?

Thanks

[Dennis_Knutson]

Maybe with some work. On windows, using the Agilent device is possible because Agilent provides a VISA driver. Then you are able to use VISA Writes and Reads and all of the instrument drivers that are written with VISA. You cannot use the lower level LabVIEW GPIB functions with an Agilent board. If the linux driver for the Agilent board also includes a VISA implementation, then it just might work with LabVIEW. I doubt that the driver includes VISA though. Then you would be left with calling the low level Agilent driver with the Call Library Function Node I am guessing. You would then have to rewrite any instrument driver that you download from NI or write your own. That all seems like a lot of work to use a device that costs as much as or more than NI's in the first place.

[m-s]

Hi

I just installed Labview 7.1 for linux on my machine after throwing away (not literally !) the Agilent card and borrowing an NI PCI-GPIB card. This works with kernels 2.4.x (tested with /usr/local/vxipnp/linux/NIvisa/NIvisaic). However, for proper operation of my machine (have bad display and mouse problems with the old kernel)  I need kernels 2.6.x. The driver in /usr/local/nigpib complains that it cannot work with those. I tried hacking the INSTALL script but it keeps running up against differences (like the modversions.h file) between the two kernel series.

Can I use a newer version of the gpib libraries for linux with an older version of Labview like I am using ? I guess I will also need to get newer versions of the visa drivers for that. Though, the labview installation went smoothly with kernel 2.4.27-3 on my Debian system, I know that the newer versions of nigpib (is that the same as ni48825L.iso ?) and NIVISA are not supported on Debian. I cannot reinstall with a different distro, so please do not suggest that.

Any other suggestions ?

Thanks.