Not working ivi drivers, Anritsu MS2781

[Federico Marangoni]

Hi everybody,

i'm trying to use the IVI drivers for the spectrum analyzer Anritsu MS2781. I installed the IVI drivers form the manufacturer CD and  my LabVIEW 7.0 has inserted the drivers inside the IVI drivers palette.

So the installation was good. In the Measurement and Automation Explorer i created a new Resource with the proper Logical Name, Hardware Asset and Driver Session, with the links to the .dll of the system.

But every time i launch the .vi in which the IVI drivers are included, i'm given an error sayng that the function is not supported.

Then i tried to create a new VISA resource with the syntax TCPIP::ADDRESS::INSTR to connect to the instrument over the ethernet connection by VISA methods.

But again the instrument couldn't be located in the system, even if it is working properly and the network connection is ok (ping works!!!)

Can anyone help me....???

Thanks so much

Federico

[thehobbs]

The logical name should only be needed if you were wanting to develop for IVI interchangeability or to include configuration settings from the driver session in your program.  Trying the TCPIP resource name directly was a good idea.  You can try the same thing with a VISA Open VI in LabVIEW to remove the driver layer from the equation.  If this does not work, run NI-Spy while doing this to capture what is going on over the communication bus.  One other thing is that even though you can ping it, just make sure that the ENET port is selected as the interface port on the instrument.

So the driver installed VIs into the LabVIEW instrument drivers menu palette?  Do you know if the driver is IVI-COM or IVI-C?

[Makoto]

The VISA address you typed -- TCPIP::ADDRESS::INSTR, seems like the instrument is VXI-11 compatible.  Is the instrument really compatible with VXI-11 (TCPIP INSTR resource on VISA)?  You can check it by using NI-MAX, which allows to search for VXI-11 instruments. 

[Telege]

Hello Fedrico or anyone,
I'm am desperately in need of the operating system and driver software for the anritsu MS2781.
Does anyone have the software? Antisu no longer supports the set and told me to get it from anyone else but them.
Thanks in advance,
Jim