Re: [Linux-gpib-general] Prologic GPIB-USB adaptors

[John <su...@qc...>]

Patrick,

Yes, that's true. On Windows you access it via a COM port, on Linux its
/dev/ttyUSBx port. However, I would like to use my Schlumberger 7150+
DMM with Sigrok on Linux. I have been advised that Sigrok support for
GPIB is via linux-gpib but since linux-gpib does not have support for
this particular adapter I am unable to use my DMM with Sigrok. What is
missing is a means for Sigrok to talk to USB GPIB devices using the
Prologix protocol. Perhaps if I had an NI card, this might have been
possible via linux-gpib.

I was perhaps hoping that linux-gpib might already provide a suitable
layer of abstraction as per NI or Matlab, but as I have been advised,
this particular adapter is not supported and support is not planned so
I guess I will have to pursue other options such as writing a suitable
native driver for Sigrok or (cringe) using something on Windows.

Regards.



On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 09:45 -0500, Patrick wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> Prologix is cross platform. Don't you just have to switch the serial 
> port name? COM1 -> /dev/ttyUSB0 etc ?
> 
-- 
John.