NI VISA freezes when initializing

[spoudel]

Why does NI VIsa configuration (version 5.3) freezes in initializing? 

[chaka1234]

Hi Spoudel,

Is that a fresh install? Or it had been working before?

Also, which OS are you using?

Carmen C.

[Luke_W]

Are you able to open VISA Interactive Control or use any other VISA functionality (in LabVIEW or MAX, for example?)

[spoudel]

Its a fresh install in Mac OSX 10.8. I tried 5.1.2, and 5.3. None of them work! 

[Luke_W]

That's definitely a major inconvenience. Do you have LabVIEW or any NI drivers installed on the machine aside from VISA? If so, could you provide the version information, please?

[spoudel]

Well, I have Labview 2010, but no other visa drivers. I am trying to link my arduino to Labview, hence NI VISA.

[Luke_W]

I see... What about 488.2/GPIB? I've seen this before with older versions of this driver. If it was installed, there would likely be an Applications/National Instruments/NI-488.2 directory.

[spacetime]

Hi, were you able to solve this issue? I also got Arduino Uno and have exactly the same problem. NI-Visa freezes while initializing...

I am using Labview 32-bit 2011 on Mac OSX 10.8.4.

Let me know if you could make it work. I'm dying to get started with my Arduino!

Thanks in advance.

[johnsold]

I just installed VISA 5.4 on my Mac (OS X 10.8.4, 27" iMac) and NI-VISA Configuration.app runs without any problems.   I have had several earlier versions of VISA and multiple versions of LV on this computer.

Lynn

[spacetime]

Thanks for the response Lynn. I have the same version of NI-Visa and OSX on a macbook pro. But still NI-Visa freezes on the initializing window.

Can you let me know if you are booting with 32-bit or 64-bit kernel?

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