error nican.dll

[WeberM]

hello,

my computer doesn't load my application correct.
it seems that the vi's can't find the nican.dll because the message is "error loading nican.dll".

has anyone an idea?

markus

[DirkW]

Hi,

what kind of application are you talking about? (VI with LabVIEW, EXE, c file with C++?)
Did you install NI CAN in order to have the DLL installed?

DirkW

[WeberM]

Hello,

i've copied the nican.dll's to the windows\system folder and started my vi.
at start up an error message was shown.
i've got no other files installed.

markus

[DirkW]

In order to work with NI CAN hardware or software you have to install the complete driver . Its unfortunately not enough to copy some dlls.

DirkW

[RichElswick]

Not totally sure, but I was recently having a similiar error and it was one of two things, if i recollect correctly:

1. The bus speed in my VI application and that set in the MAX were not the same.
2. The hardware was not present on the machine I was trying to develop on.  See this thread for being able to do it with Version 2.3 of the software drivers:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=30&message.id=605

per a post in there:

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NI-CAN 2.3 introduced the ‘virtual CAN interface’ (aliases CAN256 and CAN257). Thus, if you use NI-CAN 2.3 (or higher) you can just initialize one of those aliases and use the generated TaskRef as an input for the nctGetProperty function.
Download the latest NI-CAN version here.

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