usb 6218 on a kubuntu system

[mosta]

Hey,

I bought the NI USB-6218 and I installed the driver from the cd at my system, because I have a debian based system.  I had to follow the instructions from this Post. After that the device don't get detetced by the lsdaq command. Do someone know what I made wrong here.

% lsdaq
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Detecting National Instruments DAQ Devices
Found the following DAQ Devices:
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With the lsusb Command I get a usb device listed

% lsusb
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 3923:7269 National Instruments Corp.

I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) with rtai 3.6.1 and a 2.6.24.3 kernel

[mosta]

nobody has on answer? or tip

greetings mosta

[RobertH]

hello mosta,

which version of DAQmxBase did you install on your system?

regards,

robert h
NI germany

[mosta]

I used the version 3.2.0_i386

[RobertH]

hello mosta,

i am testing around a bit. since kubuntu is not an officially supported distro, there's no guarantee that it may work.
i'll keep you updated as soon as i have any results.

kind regards,

robert

[RobertH]

hello mosta,

witth the following steps i made DAQmxBase 3.2 work on a Kubuntu 8.04.1 system:
- download the NI-KAL 1.9 from our homepage:
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1195/lang/de
and the DAQmxBase files:
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1076/lang/de

- install "alien" on your system to be able to convert rpms into debs.
- convert the KAL rpm into a deb archive. in order to get the rpm you will have to extract the file "nikal-1.9.0f0.tar.gz":
/kal_dir/sudo alien -c ./nikali-1.9.0-f0.rpm
- install the generated deb
- change the directory to "/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src" and execute:
/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/sudo ./configure
/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/sudo make install
then NI-KAL should be installed

- then change to the directory, where you extracted the DAQmxBase files and go to the subdirectory "nivisa"
- replace the file "INSTALL" with the version i attached here (i removed NI-KAL
- run /daqmxbase_dir/nivisa/sudo ./INSTALL --no-rpm

- then change to the DAQmxBase directory
- convert all rpms to debs with:
/daqmxbase_dir/sudo alien -c ./*rpm
- install the debs

this worked out on my testsystem.
kind regards,

robert

Message Edited by RobertH on 01-09-2009 03:35 AM

[mosta]

Thanks, this also worked on my machine.