02-03-2015 09:53 PM
Hi All,
I have a NI USB-6001 DAQ device that I am trying to get working under linux. My distro is opensuse 13.1, and I am trying to use ni-daqmx base 14 to talk to the device. After much messing about I finally managed to get the drivers installed, however I'm not having any luck communicating with the device. The output from dmesg indicates that the device is plugged in and recognised, however the output from lsdaq does not list the device at all as you can see below.
The user guide for the device suggests that it is supported by NI-DAQmx 9.9 and later admittedly the doc is written from a mswindows-centric viewpoint, so I
hope that applies to linux also.
Has anyone managed to get this device to work under linux? Alternatively, can anyone think why it isn't detected?
Thanks for any assistance
> dmesg
...
[ 1.605963] usb 3-14: new full-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[ 1.617849] usb 3-14: New USB device found, idVendor=3923, idProduct=76bf
[ 1.617851] usb 3-14: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1.617852] usb 3-14: Product: USB-6001
[ 1.617853] usb 3-14: Manufacturer: National Instruments
...
> lsdaq
--------------------------------
Detecting National Instruments DAQ Devices
Found the following DAQ Devices:
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> uname -r
3.11.10-25-desktop
> lsmod | grep ^ni
nimxdfk 663726 1
nipxirmk 322143 1
nidimk 441753 2 nipxirmk
nimdbgk 524901 3 nimxdfk,nipxirmk
niorbk 141747 4 nimxdfk,nipxirmk,nidimk,nimdbgk
nipalk 1193476 8 NiViPciK,nimxdfk,nipxirmk,nidimk,nimdbgk,niorbk
nikal 113161 6 nimxdfk,nipxirmk,nidimk,nimdbgk,niorbk,nipalk
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02-03-2015 10:41 PM
02-03-2015 11:01 PM
Quite right - it isn't listed. And I suspected that it might be the case that the USB-6001 was a windows only device. Hopefully a future release of nidaqmx for linux might include it.
Anyway thanks for confirming my doubts
02-11-2015 11:09 AM
Is the NI USB communication protocol documented anywhere such that it would be possible to communicate with these DAQs directly?
04-10-2017 06:27 PM
I'd guess they - as will all such thing - they keep it as secret as nuclear launch keys.