Has anyone had a confilct between a FB PCMCIA card and a Agilent GPIB card?

[craiglar]

I'm using a PCI/PCMCIA card adapter board in the PC for the Fieldbus PCMCIA.  I cannot use the new PCI Fieldbus board in this application, and the PC does not have ISA slots.

I'm trying to setup a test system that requires both FF communications and GPIB.  There appears to be a conflict between the FBUS PCMCIA card and the Agilent GPIB card.  They are trying to share the same IRQ (9).  If I try to change the IRQ of either card it always reverts back to IRQ 9.  Neither the NI Fieldbus Configuration utility, nor the Windows XP Device Manager will let me change the IRQ of either the GPIB card, nor the PCI card adapter.

I can boot the PC fine, as long as the PCMCIA card is not plugged in.  Once started, I can then plug in the Fieldbus card and it will function.

Any ideas, or similar situations?

[S.G.]

You can try to use the "Polled Mode" instead of IRQ mode in your PCMCIA-FBUS card. The "Polled Mode" will not occupy any IRQ resource, thus there will have no such IRQ sharing problem.

Please close all the NI-FBUS program, especially the NI-FBUS Communications Manager, then run the Interface Configuration Utility, you will see the "Board0", which is your PCMCIA-FBUS card, right-click the "Board0" and choose "Edit". Then the  "H1 Interface Board Properties" dialog appears, just click the check box "Polled Mode" to make it checked, close the Interface Configuration Utility, and try to run NI-FBUS software, it should work.

Hope it helps.