8164B instrumentID could not be queried with driver subVI

[JBJBJBJBJB]

Hello all,

i have an Agilent 8164B connected over Lan, if i try VISA commands in Labview everything works fine. But if I want to use the subVIs from the driver it didnt work. If I use Initialize.vi i get the error:  "Driver Status: (Hex 0xBFFC0011) Instrument ID couldnot be queried" even if i turn idquery off.

Has someone an idea what causes the problem.

Many thanks in advance.

JB

Works finethrows error

[cstorey]

There seem to be a few 816x "drivers" floating around.  Some very old (LabVIEW 6.x) and another that is just a wrapper to a DLL.  Which are you using?

If its the wrapper then it might be that your bitness of LabVIEW and the DLL aren't the same.  See - https://community.keysight.com/thread/36794

Also do a search of this forum to see how others have encountered similar situations and problems with the driver - 

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Instrument-Control-GPIB-Serial/Driver-for-Agilent-8164B-Lightwave-Measureme...

[JBJBJBJBJB]

Thanks for your reply. I tried an older version which was already on the pc (probably the real old one), as well as the wrapper from the keysight website, where I also installed the driver before, like described in the linked forumpost.

Edit: Im using Labview 32bit, therefore the bitness should not be the problem.

Maybe the Lan interface is the problem since in https://forums.ni.com/t5/Instrument-Control-GPIB-Serial/Agilent-816x-Driver-for-LAN-Interface/m-p/22... it seems also problematic.

Edit2: In https://community.keysight.com/message/56804?commentID=56804#comment-56804 is stated a Lan-connection should work.