I need to query the 488.2 board/controller/interface name (mainly GPIB-USB)

[Justin_E]

Diadev,

What is the model of the GPIB-USB adapter you're using? I connected a GPIB-USB-HS to my machine and saw it show up correctly in MAX and in gpib.ini. What driver version of NI-488.2 are you running? You can find this info from MAX by expand the Software tree

[diadev]

Sorry about this.. my fault.. windows search did not include the "documents and settings" folder. (Don't ask me why..)

So I found the file where it is supposed for the latest version, as described in your link http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/EF48D0753D8F4EFC8625735A0039E682?OpenDocument .

Finding the right path in a multi language environment is a bit of a pain, though (since there is no direct environment variable - you have to concatenate it yourself fro APPDATA and ALLUSERSPROFILE).

Anyway, many thanks for all your inputs!!