nilsdev returns nothing (Debian)

[Orjan Friberg]

Hi,

I've installed NIDAQmx 8.0 on a Debian lenny with a 2.6.18 kernel in a way similar to other users in this forum (alien -c, plus manual intervention for a couple of drivers), with NIKAL 1.8 on top of that. I have a PCI 6250 card (which has previously worked under Windows) which shows up in lspci as:

02:00.0 Class ff00: National Instruments Device 717f

Running nilsdev returns nothing at all, and neither dmesg nor /var/log/messages show any errors. updateNIDrivers works fine. lsmod | grep ni shows:

nimdbgk 506044 0
niorbk 128340 1 nimdbgk
nipalk 1249520 3 nimdbgk,niorbk
nikal 69408 2 nipalk
usbcore 112644 5 nikal,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

Any pointers as to what might be wrong, or suggestions on additional things to check is appreciated.

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Orjan Friberg

Message Edited by Orjan Friberg on 09-11-2008 03:55 AM

[Orjan Friberg]

Installing NIDAQmx base 3.2 and using lsdaq correctly identified the card (not a 6250 like I previously wrote):

--------------------------------
Detecting National Instruments DAQ Devices
Found the following DAQ Devices:
NI 6259: "Dev1" (PXI2::0::INSTR)
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NIDAQmx base doesn't have DAQmxRegisterEveryNSamplesEvent which looks like the only obstacle in porting our application from NIDAQmx to NIDAQmx base. I'll look into that route, but still I'd like to solve the nilsdev problem if possible.

[strader]

Thank you for the reply, but 6601 is not supposed to work with Base.  I did no try it, though. may as well do as another desperate assault.