How to install NI-VISA 4.4.0 kernel modules under Gentoo ?

[Shawn B.]

So did you get everything installed and working?  If you just unpacked the rpms and installed them manually then it is possible that some configuration steps were not run.  So I'm guessing NI-VISA still does not work.

Shawn Bohrer

National Instruments

[Sak1s]

well the visa drivers and the visaconf seams to work fine.....but what is the right rpm installation order for the runtime visa ???

[Shawn B.]

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Sak1s wrote:
well the visa drivers and the visaconf seams to work fine.....but what is the right rpm installation order for the runtime visa ???

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I'm not sure I understand the question.  If you want to just install the NI-VISA runtime you can download the separate installer here.  Note that installing the full version of NI-VISA also installs the runtime.  It is recommended that you run the INSTALL scripts provided with both NI-VISA and the runtime, since it will perform extra steps needed to configure the kernel modules for your system.  If running the INSTALL scripts doesn't work I would be interested in seeing the output from the scripts so that we can improve future versions.

Shawn Bohrer

National Instruments

[Sak1s]

sorry for my poor english.....well i mean the dependencies for the nikal modules..... if i want to install the only the nikal driver and the visaconf to my machine....witch rpms i have to install manually ?

[Shawn B.]

Unfortunately that is a hard question to answer.  All of the rpms are needed for some part of NI-VISA to function or they wouldn't be included.  If you install all of the rpms from the NI-VISA Runtime package that will give you the bare minimum to make NI-VISA function, but it won't provide the developer tools like visaconf.  I'm not a visa expert, but looking at the rpms in the NI-VISA 4.5 package I would guess that the nivisa-config-4.5.0-f0.i386.rpm, and nicvirte-8.0-7.i386.rpm would provide visaconf.  You may also need nivisa-devel-4.5.0-f0.i386.rpm but I'm not sure.

Shawn Bohrer

National Instruments