Hello
My name is Nishantha Fernando from National Instruments Japan.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Please have a look at the following link below.
It said that "NI generally supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux."
We appologize for the inconvenience, however your linux distribution,Vine Linux, is not supported under National Instruments.
Technical Assistance for Linux and National Instruments Products
I was able to find following NI-VISA driver as below .
NI-VISA 5.0 - Linux, SUSE, RedHat
Plese have a look at the readme.txt. It said that NI-VISA 5.0 for Linux has been tested on the following distributions.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop + Workstation 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop + Workstation 5 x64 32-bit User-Mode
openSUSE 11.1
openSUSE 11.2
Scientific Linux 5.x
Please let me know if you have any more questions regarding this.
Thank you and best regards,
Nishantha Fernando | Engineering Dept. Applications Engineer | National Instruments Japan Corporation.