Re: GPIB support

[Jochen Buehler]

Richard B. Johnson writes:
 > On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Wan Hing Wah wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm doing a project which port a component testing program in DOS which
 > > use GPIB to linux
 > > Does the Linux kernel support GPIB?
 > > 
 > > 
 > > I find a linux gpib driver in the  linux lab project
 > > http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/

AFAIK this driver does not work with 2.2 nor 2.4 kernels.

 > > 
 > 
 > GPIB is terribly device-specific. What board do you intend to use?
 > National Instruments has a so-called driver for their TNT4882 on
 > their web-site. I was never able to get it to even compile, much
 > less work.
 > 

The NI gpib kernel module works flawlessly on 2.2 machines,
we are using this driver with a PCI GPIB card and the
machine in question has an uptime of 248 days at the moment.
Don't know if there is support for 2.4, though.

Regards,

Jochen