scan for device with GPIB-USB-B under linux

[luca72]

Hello
i have a b&k connected with GPIB-USB-B under linux how i have to do for make the scan and see if he find it?

Regards

Luca

[Chuck_81]

Hello,

about your question you can act in the following way:

• First of all: which Linux distribution are you using? (I'm asking this because there are some distributions that don't support GPIB-USB-B. In this page: http://www.ni.com/support/gpib/versions.htm#linux you can control if the distribution you are using is compatible or not);
• If your distribution supports GPIB-USB-B, then you have to download the NI-488.2 drivers for linux (in this page: http://www.ni.com/linux/gpib.htm you can download them and obtain information from the README file);

I hope that stuff will be useful for you.

Fabio 

[tuba]

Luca-

Since there is not Measurement & Automation Explorer in Linux, there is no utility used to Scan for Instruments like you would in Windows.  If you want to list all instruments on the bus, you would need to write a small application which would do it using the Find Listeners command available in both the VISA and NI-488.2 APIs.

-tuba