NI-Serial support for ENET-232/4 on Windows 7 64 bit

[pmarshall]

Does NI plan to support the ENET-232 on Windows 7 64 bit (see note from NI-Serial 3.6 below)?  My company is planning on migrating to Windows 7 soon.  I had expected that Windows 7 64 bit would have been supported by now.

From the Support section of the NI-Serial 3.6 readme file "NISerial36Readme.htm"

Note: ENET interfaces are not supported on Server 2008 or 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista

To download previous versions of NI-Serial drivers, refer to ni.com/updates and search for NI-Serial.

[D_Biel]

pmarshall,

ENET may but supported in the future on Windows 7 64-bit, but as of right now, there are no timelines in place for adding support.

[Duffy2007]

Hi pmarshall,

you can try to access the box directly

Can I Use the ENET-232 or ENET-485 on Systems with VISA Support Only?

[j_dodek]

Hello,

now almost two years later, i like to run it with the latest driver 3.9 and i realized that there is NO support for Win7 64bit.

Looking on Ni.com driver's page you will see that there is support for Win7 64bit for 3.8.1 !!??? Is this really working,
or is it just a bug on the page?

Btw. Is there support for Win7 64bit today ?

Regards

Juergen  

[Duffy2007]

Hello Juergen,

the driver can be used for our serial hardware on 64 bit systems only the ENET-232 boxes are not supported

Readme NI-Serial for Windows, Version 3.9

[j_dodek]

Hi Alexander,

That sounds quite bad!

Our lates desktop maschines will have always Windows 7 64bit. We have several ENET-232 and 485 devices.

That means i can rid of them now ?!

This is not the way of NI i normally know that a NI-device is not supported in lates OS.

So please tell me when there is support for ENET on Windows 7 64bit.

Regards

Juergen

[Duffy2007]

Hello Jürgen,

you can use them with 64 Bit machines, but you ned a 32 Bit machine to configure the device.

Can I Use the ENET-232 or ENET-485 on Systems with VISA Support Only?

I hope the KB helps.

[pmarshall]

Alexander and Jürgen

I have stopped using NI serial products as a result of them dropping support for the ENET-232 boxes on Window 7 64 bit.  I have legacy software that uses COM ports and I do not have the budget to rewrite them.  Setting them up as a COM port gives me a lot of flexibility that I lose when using VISA.  I guess those who use the ENET-232 boxes for programs where they do not have access to the source code are out of luck.

[j_dodek]

Hi,

I also need the COM-Port, on one side just to use the HyperTerminal and on the other side there is a lot of "own" code that use a "COM" port.

so VISA is no choise at all.

Regards

Juergen