Is the 183617G-01 PCI GPIB card supported by Linux drivers?

[Dave_L]

I'm trying to find out if 183617G-01 PCI GPIB card is supported under Linux. 

Also, I tried searching the NI site for  technical info (specs, user's guide, etc) but turned up nothing for htis card.  Is there a source for such info on this card?  Anything peculiar I should know about this card?

Thanks.

[Dennis_Knutson]

What exactly did you search for? There is the PCI-GPIB product page with links to the documentation and the drivers page lists released and beta versions of NI-488.2 for the supported Linux distributions.

[Dave_L]

I searched specifically on "183617G-01" and came up with nothing in the way of specific information on this card and its use with Linux, nor any product user guides or specifications.

I do understand that NI has linux drivers, but I want to find out if this specific card is supported.  I did not find anything referencing this card on the links you gave.  Maybe I'm missing something?

[Dennis_Knutson]

You have an older GPIB board with different chips and a different layout but the PCI-GPIB manual and specs should apply to it as well as the latest version. I have not used the older PCI-GPIB boards with linux but used them with everything with a driver for Win98 to a new pc with WinXP.

[Dave_L]

My experience with Linux tells me it isn't safe extrapolate whether card is supported in Linux by its support in the various flavors of Windows.  I've been burned a few times here. 

Anyone have concrete info on Linux support for this card?

[mr_]

Dave_L--

What I did was search on National Instruments' Drivers and Updates page for the NI-488.2 driver, for Linux--the PCI-GPIB uses the NI-488.2 driver.  I found the driver page for the NI-488.2 v2.5 for Linux, which provides a readme.txt link.  In the Readme, there is a section called Supported GPIB Interfaces.  In this section, the PCI-GPIB is listed for Linux support.

I hope this helps.  Cheers!

[Dave_L]

Thanks Tyler,

This suggests to me that there is a common driver interface for all hardware versions and revisions of the PCI-GPIB cards. 

Is that a valid statement?

[mr_]

Dave_L--

If there was a stipulation with any revisions, it would be noted in the Readme.txt.  I'd say this is a safe assumption.

Cheers!

[JasonSmith]

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Tyler_C wrote:

Dave_L--

If there was a stipulation with any revisions, it would be noted in the Readme.txt.  I'd say this is a safe assumption.

Cheers!

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To remove any assumption (even safe ones), I will clarify that this board is supported with our current NI-488.2 drivers for Linux.

-Jason S.

[Dave_L]

Jason,

Thanks for the definitive answer.

Dave L.