About DAQ low level drivers documentation and sources

[DAQuser]

Hi,

I am using NI USB-6211 DAQ device. I heard that low level drivers are available free ware for Linux. Can some expert recommend where can I find the sources and documentation for APIs? Also, Are there any libraries available for that? I want to do start and stop measurements from my application. Can somebody recommend that which libraries, drivers or documentation should I use? I am only on Linux platforms.

Regards

R.Verma

[Dennis_Knutson]

The DAQmx Base driver is free and available for Linux. Otherwise, you are probably looking for Comedi.

[DAQuser]

Hi,

My linux distribution is Ubuntu. Will these work also on ubuntu?

Regards,

R.verma

[DAQuser]

My Linux distribution is Ubuntu 10.04. I am getting still problems.

[DAQuser]

Hi,

I will club my questions now:

1) I am using Ubuntu version 10.04. I took the .iso image and mounted it. I am using Ubuntu 64 bit version. It seems rpm is supports 32 bit. When I ran

alien -d --scripts *.rpm,

I got the following errors:

error: incorrect format: unknown tag
Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installdirs
dh_installdirs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installdocs
dh_installdocs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installchangelogs
dh_installchangelogs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
        xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/labview82-rte
dh_compress
dh_compress: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_makeshlibs
dh_makeshlibs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_installdeb
dh_installdeb: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_shlibdeps
dh_shlibdeps: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: couldn't find library libstdc++.so.5 needed by debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/libnitaglv.so (ELF format: 'elf32-i386'; RPATH: '/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2').
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/labview82-rte.substvars debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/linux/libOSMesa.so.4.0 debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/linux/libstdc++.so.5.0.3 debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/liblkrealt.so debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/liblkdynam.so debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/nids.so debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/patchlib/libGL.so.1.2 debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/liblvrtdark.so.8.2.1 debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/LV82NPlugin.so debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/liblksock.so debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/lvdark debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/libnitaglv.so debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/lvanlys.so debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/liblvrt.so.8.2.1 debian/labview82-rte/usr/local/lib/LabVIEW-8.2/liblksec.so returned exit code 2
make: [binary-arch] Error 9 (ignored)
dh_gencontrol
dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear in package's architecture list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog -Tdebian/labview82-rte.substvars -Pdebian/labview82-rte returned exit code 255
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 9
find: `labview82-rte-8.2.1': No such file or directory

Any views on this...

2) My 2nd question is "does base driver also available for windows freeware?"