RHEL GPIB USB for general user

[Jon G.]

How can I make a gpib-hs-usb device show up in gpibexploer for a generarl user?

Upon reinstalling a system with  RHEL 5.6 (32bit 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5)  gpibexplorer 2.9.0

gpibexplorer is not able to detect  a gpib-hs-usb device as a general user.

The device can be found if the user sudos first.  This is consistant with 4GHDSAR7.

However, the device is visible to a general user on another system. 

[margasan]

Hello Jon,

Have you tried installing ( or reinstalling ) the newest version of the NI 488.2 drivers??

Regards

Mart G

[Jon G.]

To the best of my knowledge, the most recent version is currrently  ni4882-2.9.0f0.

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2636/lang/en

Bot the system that shows the device to the general user and the one that does not show the same rpms.

I have tried resinstallation a couple of times. This was preceded by using the uninstall script.

looking for fatal err and warn I did find this. ()

tmp]# grep -i warn *log
clientKalMake.log:WARNING: could not find /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/clienti488lock-processed.o.cmd for /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/client/ni488lock-prssed.o

The install log from the system that shows the device to the general user appears to have purged the install log from the tmp diredcoty.

If I were to try the installation process again, would there be something to look for?

Should the device be unplugged durring installation process? 

[Jon G.]

To be clear, I should add that version listed is the one I used.

[margasan]

Hello Jon,

Can you check which kernel version are you using??

Mart G

[Jon G.]

both systems:

~]# rpm -qa kernel
kernel-2.6.18-274.7.1.el5