Installing and using Tektronix TDS 210 in LabVIEW 6.1

[Brandon Keene]

I am trying to interface my Tektronix TDS 210 Two-Channel scope with labView VIs. I am using the native serial interface on my motherboard without ay sort of PXI card, standard RS232. While Ni had a drivers package for my scope, and I followed the installation docs, my scope still does not work with the LabView environment. The install affected the LabView libs as I can see the options for my scope in the "Instrument Drivers" tap under functions. But when I try and run VIs in that section, I receive this: "Error -1073807195 occurred at tktds2x0 Initialize With Options.vi. Possible Reasons: Driver Status: (Hex 0xBFFF00A5) The interface type is valid but the specified interface number is not configured. Primary
Error: (Hex 0xBFFF000E) The given session or object reference is invalid." Could someone tell me what the soltuion to this is? Thanks.

[Ben]

You do not mention your OS or LV version.

Different versions warrent different suggestions.

Ben

[Ben]

Sorry,

You did say 6.1!

Does the serail port show up in MAX?

Can you open the simple serial examples that ship with LV?

Ben

[Brandon Keene]

Well as far as OS and platform are concerned, I am running Windows 98SE. I can see the serial interface in MAX (Meas. and Auto Explorer) as an IVI instrument. It is listed under its correct name of tltds2x0 using ASRL2::INSTR as the resource descriptor. Also the option "simulate" is set to true (1), and I am not sure if that is even relevent.