recommendations for GPIB card compatible with BSD

[rnabioullin]

Hello, I am seeking a PCI- or PCIx-based GPIB card that's compatible with x86 BSD.  The server only needs to control a single RF demodulator unit (this is for a remote time metrology and NTP node) from the late 80s.

[protocoled]

I would recommend contacting National Instruments about this, since it is a very corner case. If it does exist, it will be this card:

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/201626 

I am not 100% sure it will work with that specific OS.

[protocoled]

I read through the 488.2 for Linux read me: https://download.ni.com/support/softlib/gpib/linux/15.1/patch/README.txt

The following OS's are supported:

CentOS 7
openSUSE 13.1
openSUSE 13.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Scientific Linux 6

An X Windows graphical environment is required to run graphical configuration
and troubleshooting utilities.

For more information about supported Linux versions and distributions supported
by NI, refer to ni.com/linux.

[protocoled]

Sorry for the triple post. I just realized BSD is unix-like and not Linux-based. In this case, you will not find any of our hardware offerings support it unfortunately. 

[rnabioullin]

Ok, thanks.  Apparently the PPS timing cards that I'll be using don't support BSD either, and naturally I don't need kernel PPS support, so I'll run GNU/Linux instead and purchase an NI PCI GPIB card.  Is it likely that these cards will work with 64 bit x86 Debian instead of the officially-supported distros?

[protocoled]

To be honest, I'm not able to tell you. The official answer is no, if it's not listed as supported it won't 'work'.

However, this doesn't mean it won't work, just that NI hasn't verified that it DOES work.