NI-Device Setup Problem

[sb-gpib]

We have Device computer(PentiumII) with Windows NT 4.0 OS on it. The computer has PCMCIA GPIB card on it. This computer is part of the Device/Instrument which will have GPIB interface. We have 'NI-Device Std. for Windows' for Device application development from NI and 'NI 488.2 for Windows' for the PCMCIA-GPIB card. I installed both of the above drivers and verified the installation. They look fine. But When I run the example application (provided with the NI-Device) 'SimpleGpibDevice.exe' the status code 'NIDEVICE_STATUS_HARDWARE_NOT_FOUND' is returned. I debugged the application and found that 'EnableInterface' method in CGpibDevice class is failing with the above return code.

Does anyone know, What am I missing in the setup/configuration, w
hich may cause that error?

Any help on the NI-Device setup and test would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
Sanjay

[GPIB_Guru]

You actually have two problems:
1) To use NI-Device, you must not have NI-488.2 installed. Both drivers (NI-Device and NI-488.2) attempt to use the hardware and a conflict arises. Make sure that you uninstall NI-488.2 to use NI-Device.

2) The PCMCIA-GPIB board is not currently supported by NI-Device under Windows NT 4. I will do some research and determine if there are any workarounds to allow this hardware/driver/os combination to work.

[sb-gpib]

Thanks for your response, GPIB Guru!

You are right on #1. I got to know yesterday. I have already uninstalled the NI 488.2 driver. Originally, we were trying PC104-GPIB card with WinNT 4.0. then, we were mistakenly informed that PCMCIA-GPIB works with NI-Device, which you correctly pointed out in #2.

If you find any company or individual who already has NI-Device driver for PC104-GPIB or PCMCIA-GPIB, please post it immediately.

Thanks Again.