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I have tried putting the PCI-GPIB board in different slots with no success. Every time I try installing the gpib module, it probes for a PCI-GPIB board and says that no PCI-GPIB board is detected. insmod nigpib yields the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/nigpib.o: init_module: No such device
My machine is a Dell Optiplex GX260 and there are three other NI cards in place.
I've experienced this before with other boards under Linux. My solution was to go to the machine BIOS and turn off pnp (Plug and Play). This will enable linux to correctly assign IRQ's for the GPIB boards at bootup eliminating any incorrect assignment done by the BIOS.
My BIOS did not have an option to turn off PnP. But in looking for it I found that the card was only being detected intermittently by the BIOS i.e. it would appear in the list of devices in BIOS and in Linux's 'lspci' output and then disappear again after a reboot. I think the solution is a replacement card. Thanks for the help though!
