CAN Device requires Driver update

[murali_vml]

Hi,

I had recently procured NI-PCI CAN Card(Series 2).I already have labview version 7.1 with its drivers.The NI CAN driver version assosciated with LABVIEW was 2.3.I had installed the drivers and after which i installed the card.But the Card was not getting detected.There was associated CAN driver CD of version 2.5.2,when i upgraded my driver from 2.3 to 2.5.2 it worked fine.

My question : Is it that with the new hardwares being received is it recommded that you have to use associated drivers which comes with the hardware?

my doubt is if i have already built an application with some old version of labview and if i upgrade latest drivers,will labview automatically take care of new driver versions?

[chris_amadasun]

Hello,
You will need to use the version of the driver that supports your device, otherwise your device will not be recognised by Windows.

Your CAN Series 2 card can use both Channel and Frame api calls. There should be no problems using code written in an earlier version of the CAN driver.