I installed LabVIEW Full Version 8.6 of Linux and gave it a quick test with
current code developed under Windows platform. It works very well except the
VISA part: when I tried to create the visa resource name or open a VI with VISA
name control, this action closed all current VI windows and quit LabVIEW
automatically.
The Redhat version is: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
The default installed programs version are: NI-VISA Development 4.4.0 and NI-488.2
Distribution version 2.5.1f0 for Linux/x86 32-bit.
This error came during installation:
error: /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.ELsmp/kernel/natinst/nipal/nipalk.ko not found
error: Please compile and install nipalk.ko by running
error: updateNIDrivers
Then I followed the advice and run updateNIDrivers, I got another error as follows:
[root@picolt02 Working]# updateNIDrivers
Configuring for linux kernel version 2.6.9-42.ELsmp.
********************************* NOTE *********************************
Using kernel headers found in /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.ELsmp/source.
If this does not correspond to the location of the 2.6.9-42.ELsmp headers,
then define KERNELHEADERS in your environment to point to the location
of the kernel headers, define KERNELTARGET as the version of the
kernel for which to compile, and then rerun ./configure.
********************************* NOTE *********************************
Kernel has reparent_to_init(): no
Number of arguments for do_munmap(): 3
pte_offset function: pte_offset_kernel()
Levels in page table: 3
Kernel has remap_pfn_range: no
Number of arguments for remap_page_range(): 5
USB altsetting name: cur_altsetting
Kernel has usb_get_intf(): yes
Kernel has intf_cache member in usb_host_config: yes
Kernel has ep[] members in usb_device: no
Kernel exports usb_set_configuration(): no
Units of USB_CTRL_GET_TIMEOUT: sec
Kernel has owner member in usb_driver: yes
Kernel has put_page_testzero(): yes
Kernel has mutex method: yes
Kernel has kthread: yes
Kernel has config.h: yes
Kernel has ioctl32.h: yes
IRQ handlers have pt_regs: yes
Kernel has work_struct and delayed_work: no
Storing configuration in Makefile.in
If the values stored are incorrect they can be changed before running make.
Uninstalling NI-KAL (nikal): done
/bin/rm -rf objects
Updating NI-KAL:
NI-KAL update failed.
/bin/cp nikal.c objects/nikal.c
/bin/cp nikal.h objects/nikal.h
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.ELsmp/source SUBDIRS=/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/ objects modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.EL-smp-i686'
CC [M] /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects/nikal.o
cc1: error: invalid option `multiple'
cc1: error: invalid option `string'
cc1: warning: unknown register name: r2
make[2]: *** [/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects/nikal.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.EL-smp-i686'
make: *** [objects/nikal.ko] Error 2
ERROR: make of nikal kernel module failed, not installing kernel module.
updateNIDrivers should be called again after fixing the problem.
Logging failure...
Include the file /tmp/niSystemReport.out.gz when contacting
National Instruments for support.
niSystemReport file is attached here. I found this poster with the similar issue:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=250&message.id=34181
Followed donatoaz's method, the latest version of NI-KAL(nikal18.iso),
NI-VISA(NI-VISA-4.4.0.iso) and NI488.2(NI4882-2.5.4b1.tar.gz) were downloaded
from NI website. Firstly I uninstalled all old drivers, and then installed
three drivers in above order according to the README file. However, the same error
of "nipalk.ko not found" happened again.
Does anyone has any ideas of these issues? Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jean
