Re: [Linux-gpib-general] Compatibility layer for pyvisa?

[W <dat...@gm...>]

Hi Alex

I followed the same path as you and gave up with these NI-Visa drivers. 
Now I have something working with linux-gpib, pyvisa/pyvisa-py on an old 
PC (Pentium 4)

A couple of days ago, I described my process to have this software 
installed. If you are interested, you can find it here 
<https://github.com/daturach/Documentation/wiki/GPIB:-Building-an-instrumentation-lab-with-python-libraries>

Good luck

Walter

On 22.11.2020 12:18, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> Hi
>
> That looks promising. I actually already had it installed but didn't
> look at it yet. From the README I figure that it has linux-gpib as a
> dependency. I'll have to look into it.
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> -Alex
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:58:44AM +0100, Roel Jordans wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> You may want to have a look at pyvisa-py.  That seems to work nicely
>> for me without having to install the NI-VISA drivers.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Roel
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexander Huemer <ale...@xx...>
>> To: Linux GPIB general mailinglist <
>> lin...@li...>
>> Subject: [Linux-gpib-general] Compatibility layer for pyvisa?
>> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 08:57:29 +0000
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> My understanding is this:
>> * linux-gpib implements drivers for many GPIB interfaces and provides
>> a
>>    userspace API on top of that, which is great.
>> * pyvisa depends on vendor drivers like NI-VISA or the equivalent of
>>    other vendors.
>>
>> Is this correct?
>>
>> I tried to get NI-VISA working yesterday in order to be able to use
>> pyvisa with a NI PCI board, on a distribution that they do not want to
>> support, on a i686 box.  I gave up after some hours, the configure
>> script they have in there was written by drunk monkeys.
>>
>> So, here is my question: Did anybody consider to make the linux-gpib
>> drivers available to pyvisa?
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>> [1]
>> https://www.ni.com/de-at/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-kal.html#334223
>>
>>
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