installing multiple drivers on a GPIB-ENET/100

[mlw]

Is it possible to install two sets of drivers (Sun & Linux drivers) on one GPIB-ENET/100 box?

I have one GPIB-ENET/100 box connected to a scope, but two different applications that need to communicate to the box; one compiled on a Sun machine, the other on a Linux machine. Right now I only have the Sun drivers installed so the Linux application cannot be used. Both applications would not run at the same time so that is not an issue.

[Geneva L.]

Hi,

The NI-488.2 drivers are not installed physically on the GPIB-ENET/100 box. The drivers are specifically for the machine that recognizes and communicates with the GPIB-ENET/100. There is firmware that gets installed on the GPIB-ENET/100 that the NI-488.2 driver communicates with. That firmware is the same for any of our NI-488.2 drivers, and currently that is the B.9 Firmware.

So, on your Sun machine, you will have NI-488.2 for Solaris installed, and on your Linux machine, you will have NI-488.2 for Linux installed. (If you had a Mac OS X system and a Windows system, also, you would respectively have NI-488.2 for Mac OS X and NI-488.2 for Windows installed on them.) Through any of these drivers, you could update the firmware on the GPIB-EN
ET/100 using the Firmware Update utility, but you only need to do it once.

The Current GPIB Driver Versions page will help show you the latest NI-488.2 drivers you can use for your particular operating systems, and they include the link to the B.9 firmware available for download at the NI website.

Once you are sure you have the B.9 firmware and the correct NI-488.2 driver installed on your specific machines, you can use either machine (not at the same time, as you correctly identified) to communicate with the GPIB-ENET/100.

Regards,
Geneva L.

[mlw]

Great. Thanks for your help.