libnipalu.so failed to initialize openSUSE 11.2 nidaqmxbase-3.4.0

[sach1tb]

Hi,

I've been trying to detect NI USB-6501 on lsdaq but it's giving me the following error:

libnipalu.so failed to initialize

Perhaps you need to run updateNIDrivers

/usr/local/bin/lsdaq: line 7:  7391 Aborted                 /etc/natinst/nidaqmxbase/bin/daqmxbase_listdevices

The same happens even after I run updateNIDrivers

Elsewhere I found that having more than 4GB ram on 32-bit system may be a problem, so I removed 4 GB (out of the 8 GB originally) to see if it works, but the problem persists.

I have attached the output from "sudo niSystemReport"

and here is the output from rpm -qa

>> rpm -qa| grep "^ni"

niorbi-1.9.3-f0.i386

nivisaserver-5.0.0-f0.i386

nicvirte-8.0-7.i386

nispyi-2.7.2-f0.i386

nidaqmxbase-usb-support-3.4.0-f2.i386

nirpci-4.2.0-f0.i386

nipalki-2.5.4-f0.i386

nivisak-5.0.0-f0.i386

nivisa-config-5.0.0-f0.i386

nimdnsresponder-1.1.0-f3.i386

nipali-2.5.4-f0.i386

nivisa-5.0.0-f0.i386

nivisa-devel-5.0.0-f0.i386

nidaqmxbase-common-3.4.0-f2.i386

nikali-2.0.0-f0.noarch

nipxirmi-1.6.0-f0.i386

nidaqmxbase-cinterface-3.4.0-f2.i386

nidimi-1.10.0-f0.i386

nidaqmxbase-board-support-3.4.0-f2.i386

Also, here is how my /usr/src directory looks:

>> /usr/src> ls -lrt

total 16

drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 2009-11-02 17:37 packages

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   18 2011-01-11 22:44 linux -> linux-2.6.31.5-0.1

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2011-01-11 23:06 linux-obj

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2011-01-11 23:06 linux-2.6.31.5-0.1-obj

drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2011-01-12 22:06 linux-2.6.31.5-0.1

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   18 2011-01-12 22:21 linux-2.6.31.5-0.1-default -> linux-2.6.31.5-0.1

Please note the symbolic link of linux-XXX-default to linux-XXX. I couldn't find the source for this exact name so I ran INSTALL after making the link (could this be a problem?)

Thanks for your time!

[MTer]

Hi,

have you tried as root

cd /usr/src/linux\
make mrproper
zcat /boot/symvers-<version>.gz > Module.symvers
make cloneconfig
make modules_prepare
updateNIDrivers

additionally you can/should specify the kernel option mem=4096M. Removing the physical memory is not necessary, afaik.

You may want to follow this instruction, to avoid performance issues.

[irwan]

That sounds like a great idea.

I found this: "[   16.671263] nikal: no symbol version for module_layout" in line 2995 of your system report..

Smells like Module.symvers problem.

Try MTer idea. Thx MTer!

[sach1tb]

Got it to work!!

The device was detected and needed a firmware update.

Thanks very much MTer and irwan.

[Decadence]

Can you help me?

I got error on:

"zcat /boot/symvers-<version>.gz > Module.symvers"

Module.symvers : access denied.

[RobertH]

Hello Decadence,

are you superuser?

kind regards,

Robert

[Decadence]

Hello RobertH!

Thanks for your quick response.

I forgot to login as root, now problem is solved. But I have the next one - I followed instruction above, "updateNIDrivers" successfully completed, but "lsdaq" return the same message:

"libnipalu.so failed to initialize".

I have a NI PCI-6731.

[RobertH]

Do you have 4GB or more RAM?

If so you can append "memmap=60G$0x100000000" as kernel parameter, see here.

[Decadence]

Yes I do.

I read that topic but I don't understand where exactly I should use this parameter? Could you help me?

[RobertH]

Assuming you have the grub bootloader, you can put the parameter in the file "/boot/grub/menu.lst" at the end of the kernel line of the kernel you use i.e.:

kernel <kernel-image> root=<root-filesystem> ... parameters ...  memmap=60G$0x100000000