Missing 100 Mbps option in GPIB Ethernet Wizard

[TobyZ]

Hello,

As the title says, the option to add an older GPIB 100Mbps box is missing in the wizard. It disappeared after I've updated the NI MAX. I updated other computers and they behaved in a similar way.

There are no other updates available:

The 100Mbps box is found on the network using the old EthernetConfig.

Any ideas ?

[Mathieu_R. · Accepted solution]

Hello TobyZ,

Check the hardware supported by the driver NI-488.2 18.5. This information can be found in the driver readme : NI-488.2 for Windows 18.5 Readme

According to this other page, the last version of NI-488.2 that support ENET/100 is 17.6 : NI-488.2 Supported Versions for GPIB Devices and Modules. So if you want to use this hardware, rollback to NI-488.2 17.6.

Regards,

[TobyZ]

Thank you for replying.

I guess I'll have to go back to an older version and disable any future update.

[Mathieu_R.]

Yes, the last version of NI-488.2 supporting the GPIB-ENET/100 is 17.6 (see readme). You can dowload it from this page if needed.

Note there is a small line saying "This hardware is end-of-life and not recommended for new designs." I'm not meaning that you have to buy an other piece of hardware, but this kind of annotation is good to monitor, in particular for driver support drop.

Regards,

[TobyZ]

We already have 3 new 1Gbps boxes, but I just wanted to resurrect an old 100 Mbps box for a simple task as sometimes all 3 1Gbps boxes are used for more important measurements.