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Re: [Linux-gpib-general] NI PCIIa: trouble running it

[frank m. h. <fm...@st...>]

You also have to set the board's irq and dma channel with the
switches/jumpers.  The PCII/IIa board also has a jumper or something to
switch it between PCII mode and PCIIa mode.  There is probably a manual
for it somewhere no national instrument's web site.

Frank

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Cezary Sydlo wrote:

> Hello Frank,
>
> i want to use a NI PCII/IIa card with the gpib-package on a Redhat 7.2
> System with a kernel 2.4.17 from kernel.org
> This computer has limited harddisk space, so i am running a extremly
> tiny installation => no X, no gcc ...
> I compiled linux-gpib for this card on an other linux machine(same
> source for kernel!) and copied all compiled files to the measurement
> computer ... (including gpib.conf, mknod master libgpib.a)
> On the measurement computer i can insmod gpib-common and gpib0, but the
> computer has trouble "becoming active controller"!
> ibchk freeses directly after "Check if Board present  OK"
> How can i check the installation?
> The README.PCIIA describes the two address switches on the card, what
> about the other switches and jumpers?
>
> Thank you
>
> Greetings
> Cezary
>
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[Linux-gpib-general] NI PCIIa: trouble running it

[Cezary S. <c_...@hf...>]

Hello Frank,

i want to use a NI PCII/IIa card with the gpib-package on a Redhat 7.2
System with a kernel 2.4.17 from kernel.org
This computer has limited harddisk space, so i am running a extremly
tiny installation => no X, no gcc ...
I compiled linux-gpib for this card on an other linux machine(same
source for kernel!) and copied all compiled files to the measurement
computer ... (including gpib.conf, mknod master libgpib.a)
On the measurement computer i can insmod gpib-common and gpib0, but the
computer has trouble "becoming active controller"!
ibchk freeses directly after "Check if Board present  OK"
How can i check the installation?
The README.PCIIA describes the two address switches on the card, what
about the other switches and jumpers?

Thank you

Greetings
Cezary

[Linux-gpib-general] Re: computerboards pcmcia

[frank m. h. <fm...@st...>]

Ray,

The board uses a cb7210.2 chip, which takes up the first 8 io
addresses, and for which some docs are available at

http://www.measurementcomputing.com/cb7210/

It also uses a cbi488.2 chip for its high-speed mode (it doesn't need to
be used for nec7210 compatibility mode), which takes up offsets 8 and 9
from the base address.  I have a fax with some cbi488.2 info in it, but
haven't converted it to electronic form yet.

What version of the driver are you working on?  I've made a lot of changes
to the cvs and it might not be worth spending much time modifying the
older versions.  I am rolling support for all the computer boards stuff
into the generic nec7210 driver, which is currently working (on and off as
I make changes) with my isa pc2a board.  I put some support for the
computer boards PCI-GPIB but I'm not sure if that's working yet.

Frank


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Raymund Rimando wrote:

> Hello Frank,
> I was wondering if you could help me.  I'm trying to get the
> driver working for a CBI-pcmcia card.
>
> It appears that once I address the board to talk, then issue
> a string to write on the bus, I cannot get the board out of
> the 'talker' state <address error>.  Shouldn't the UNT
> character get the device out of the talker state?
>
> I've tried using ibconf using board and device windows, the
> sample programs (modified and unmodified), and different
> combinations of control characters.
>
> Right now I can't even get the *IDN? string from the device.
>
> I guess I have two requests, first is for any ideas that
> might set me straight with regards to the problem, and the
> second is to ask you if you have any documentation on how
> the CBI card works (register description).
>
> Thanks for any help you can give,
> Regards
> Ray
>

[Linux-gpib-general] Re: Measurement Computing - PCI GPIB board?

[frank m. h. <fm...@st...>]

Okay, the unresolved symbol problem is fixed in cvs, see
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=42378 to access it.  There might also
be another problem however.  The old driver was a bit confused about
whether the pci-gpib card used ioports or memory mapped io.  I coded it to
use ioports, but it was just a guess.  If you could send me the output of
'lspci -v' it would be helpful.

Frank


On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Cyndy Bresloff wrote:

>
> I see to be able to compile things for my CBI-GPIB card
> on SuSe 2.4.14 Linux 'right out of the box', but I am
> getting stuck on loading the module.  It compiles with no
> errors but warnings, yes.. But then when I go to load, I get:
>
> error - (in gpib0.o) 'unresolved symbol ib_pci_dev'
>
> and it quits with that error and will not laod the module..
>