How to install NI4.882 under Ubuntu 11.04

[Rb87]

We are renewing our measurement control at our lab. The previous machine we used a NI4.882 pci-card under an old Red Hat Linux Version. There have been no problems installing the gpib-card. The new computer runs under Ubuntu 11.04. There are some minor problems like that you have to convert the rpm packages into deb packages, but there seems to be more to install the card. Is there anyone having experiences if it is possible at all to run this gpib card under a debian distribution (especially under Ubuntu 11.04) or is it true that it is neccesary to have one of the distributions proposed in the manual?

I'm more or less a newbie so please forgive when not giving enough information to answer the question and feel free to ask me for more information. I would be very happy to have some help with this problem.

Thank you in advance! 

[DarinM]

I will say that with our experience, we were unable to use a PAE kernel with our 32-bit Red Hat install.  And we had to limit the kernel to 4GB by putting a 'mem=4096' parameter in the boot string of the kernel (which is a bummer since we have 6GB on the server).  Prior to doing these two things, we couldn't get the GPIB to compile and install without errors.

- Darin

[MHoffmann]

Hi there,

you surely know the following picture:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/$CXIV/ATTACH-AEEE-8MCU3H/$FILE/LinuxSupportMatrix_subset.png

Only these distributions are supported from NI. If you want to use the NI4.882 with Ubuntu, it MAYBE works. But you can never say how long, how stable,... it will work.

So it would advice not to use it.

Best regards,

Michael

[Rb87]

Hello Michael,

thanks for the link. The INSTALL-file says more or less the same that it's only stable for some distributions. I thought it would be easier to run the pci-card under Ubuntu, but since that not seems to be the case (I already tried these and that without success and I am running out of ideas) I will probably change the distribution with a bleeding heart.

Thanks for your help,

Christopher

[DarinM]

Christopher,

If you don't want to pay the Red Hat Enterprise Linux licensing fees, you can always download CentOS.  The RPMs contained in the distribution are pretty much a mirror of the Red Hat RPMs... you can use them interchangeably.

All CentOS does is take the Red Hat source code, change the Red Hat specific graphics, change the Red Hat specific references, and repackage it as CentOS.

Regards,

- Darin

[Rb87]

Darin,

thank you very much for your hind. I'll try it!