Use of devicenet and CAN simultaneously

[elmo]

I am using Labview with a PCI-6527 DAQ card and PCI-CAN/2 card. I need to control a motor using devicenet and send CAN messages to another device.
Using NI-DNET, will give me only one port and make the other redundant. What options are there?

Do I have to buy two interface cards? and then would NI-CAN and NI_DNET give me conflicts?

I could use NI-CAN to access the DeviceNet network, but how difficult is that?

[DiegoF]

Hi Elmo,

The problem is not the hardware. The two drivers cannot be installed together. You can only have NI-CAN or NI-DNET, not both.

At the moment there is no easy workaround. You mention using NI-CAN to implement DNET. This is possible, but you need the DNET specification to interpret the frames according to the DNET spec.

DiegoF
National Instruments.