Connecting to Agilent 8753 D

[sigunya]

Hi,

I am having trouble connecting to Agilent 8753 D network analyzer via Agilent's GPIB to USB adapter. After Installing IOLibSuite_15_1_12008.0 the light on the GPIB to USB adapter turned green (drivers installed properly). Also, I was able to successfully connect to the instrument (analyzer) though one of the agilent utilities.

However, I cannot connect through LabVIEW 7.1.  Here is the link to the lib that NI provides:

http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E3B19B3E9431659CE034080020E748...

Normally I would create a control for Initialize.vi for the VISA name. On the front panel I would hit refresh and see something like GPIB0::10::INSTR This time, GPIB0 does not even show up and I only see COM3 and LPT1 

Thanks a lot for the help

[Dennis_Knutson]

First, you have make sure the controller and instrument is listed in MAX. Start by making sure that you have the latest Agilent IO Libraries and the latest version of NI-VISA. Then, you need to enable tulip support in MAX.

There have been numerous posts about getting an Agilent controller to work with NI software. You could try doing a search for the Agilent controller/adapter part number.