How old a driver can be used with the USB-GPIB Controller?

[rhalko]

Hello, I have a Nicolet scope that I am trying to control using a NI USB-GPIB controller and a Nicolet supplied program. The software was made back in 1995 and I was told it was made to work with NI AT-gpib cards and I would need to use an OLDER driver BUT I don't have access to one of these cards so a purchased a USB-GPIB hoping it would work. Will an OLDER driver support the USB-GPIB?

[Albert.Geven · Accepted solution]

sorry for you, but no

this is really old software and runs only on the driver for the at-gpib.

Software written in LabVIEW would run even from before that time.

[Zinnium]

Is the scope's drivers a standard windows installation package,  like a  .exe? 

[Zinnium]

This is how you will need to do it.     

1) the USB-GPIB  should have a driver's CD on it.  Install the driver's for it

2) restart the PC

3) Get the  Scope's Divers

      a) If this driver is a executable install;  Do a search in windows for "how to install with capability mode".  Follow the instruction on capability mode and do the install. this will take about  5 minutes or less.

      b) If this is just a driver and not a executable install:  Just install the driver like normal.

4) Restart and your done.

 5) If there was other software provided my the Scopes manufacturer. You should also use the capability mode to install it.

The Scope's driver will only talk to the driver for the GPIB, and it doesn't care how the hardware interface is. The GRIB's drivers are responsible for the hardware interface. This would have been true if it was a AT-GPIB card.  Use the capability mode and the old software problems disappears.