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PCI-6255 in LINUX
ASIM_BHATTI
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05-21-2008 12:17 AM
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Hello every one
I have PCI -6255 DAQ Card. The CD's came with it have drivers for Windows not for LINUX. Can i find out drivers for PCI-6255 for LINUX operating systems?
JoeFriedchicken
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05-21-2008 05:28 PM
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Hi Asim,
The drivers for NI products are freely downloadable from http://www.ni.com/updates. From that page, you can narrow the selection based on operating system, hardware, and other characteristics. For your case, I believe the driver that would best support your card is DAQmx Base 3.1 [1]. As with all Linux drivers, please read the readme file carefully to correctly install the driver. Also, please be aware that NI officially supports only three Linux distributions [2].
[1] NI-DAQmx Base 3.1 - Mandriva, RedHat, SUSE
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/967/lang/en
[2] What Linux Distributions Do National Instruments Drivers and Software Support?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/35D2B5E483A001A18625716B005BE464?OpenDocument
The drivers for NI products are freely downloadable from http://www.ni.com/updates. From that page, you can narrow the selection based on operating system, hardware, and other characteristics. For your case, I believe the driver that would best support your card is DAQmx Base 3.1 [1]. As with all Linux drivers, please read the readme file carefully to correctly install the driver. Also, please be aware that NI officially supports only three Linux distributions [2].
[1] NI-DAQmx Base 3.1 - Mandriva, RedHat, SUSE
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/967/lang/en
[2] What Linux Distributions Do National Instruments Drivers and Software Support?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/35D2B5E483A001A18625716B005BE464?OpenDocument
Joe Friedchicken
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[ Linux ] [ macOS ]Principal Software Engineer :: Configuration Based Software
Senior Software Engineer :: Multifunction Instruments Applications Group (until May 2018)
Software Engineer :: Measurements RLP Group (until Mar 2014)
Applications Engineer :: High Speed Product Group (until Sep 2008)
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Tom_W_[DE]
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05-22-2008 10:12 AM - edited 05-22-2008 10:12 AM
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Hi All-
Unfortunately NI-DAQmx Base does NOT support the NI 6255 devices. There is no NI-released driver for Linux currently (as of May 2008) that provides NI 6255 support. Your best option would be to either switch to a Windows machine and use NI-DAQmx, or use the Measurement Hardware Driver Development Kit (MHDDK) and employ the 6255 workarounds I list here.
Message Edited by Tom W [DE] on 05-22-2008 10:12 AM
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