2.2 GPIB driver for Solaris doesn't work with Sol. 2.3 tester

[angel]

Upgraded to 2.2 GPIB driver to fix issue of driver being lost on Sun Ultra60's at shutdown and reboot. The driver works fine with 10 of the 11 tester platforms we use. This tester is a Genesis III running Solaris 2.3. The program will run successfully, but when shutdown and re-started, the drivers are not there and must be re-installed. What to do? Thanks.

[johnyb777]

Hello-

It seems the issue with this particular system may be related to your privelidges on this particular machine. You will want to ensure that you have administrator privelidges both before and after the reboot of the machine in order for the driver to remain accessible. If this doesn't help please let us know.

Anthony Bacak
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[angel]

Thanks for the suggestion to check privileges, but that's the problem--the driver is not present to have any privileges to check. On reboot, there are only links (all owned by root with 777 perm.) at /dev which lead to non-existent directories.

#/dev> ls -l gpib*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 43 Apr 18 09:50 gpib -> ../devices/pci@1f,4000/NATI,pci-gpib@2:gpib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 44 Apr 18 09:50 gpib0 -> ../devices/pci@1f,4000/NATI,pci-gpib@2:gpib0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 44 Apr 18 09:50 gpib1 -> ../devices/pci@1f,4000/NATI,pci-gpib@4:gpib1

If you try to use these links to go to these dirs, there're not there. Also, ibconf shows no gpib devices loaded.
Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[johnyb777]

Hello -

Could you send us the result of a "modinfo" at the Unix prompt? This will help us further troubleshoot.

Anthony Bacak
National Instruments
Applications Engineer

[angel]

Anthony--
Sorry, to just now get back to this--other fires to put out. Anyway, please find attached a copy of the modinfo. Thanks for your help.

[angel]

Anthony -- have you had a chance to take a look at this? I'm also seeing this happen with our Teradyne Catalyst testers. Any help will be appreciated.