5661 doesn't show up as a DAQmx Device in LabVIEW

[Joe_Gerhardstein]

Why doesn't the PXI-5661 not show up in the list of devices if I drop a "DAQmx Device" control on the front panel of a VI?  It shows up in MAX as a DAQmx Device and I can address it using the DAQmx name it has, but I cannot figure out how to get it to show up in the control!

My users are getting used to the nice pull-down list of devices this control creates so they can select the hardware configuration for their test stations.  Why the glaring omission here?

[Dennis_Knutson]

It's not programmed with DAQmx. You use NI-RFSA and an IVI Resource Name. If you have the drivers correctly installed, you should have a NI-RFSG palette on Instrument I/O>Instrument Drivers.

[Joe_Gerhardstein]

I realize this.  However, I still need my operator to specify the Downconverter ID and Digitizer Resource String, which show up in MAX under DAQmx but are not in the pulldown list in LabVIEW.  It feels a lot like the old Traditional DAQ days, not the new DAQmx days.

[Dennis_Knutson]

As I'm sure you know, the examples don't use DAQmx controls for selecting the down converter or digitizer. I don't know why they show up in MAX under DAQmx.

[Joe_Gerhardstein]

Well, that was the confusing part for me. The 5600/5421 show up in MAX under DAQmx, and you can address them through DAQmx if you give their explicit address (e.g., PXI2Slot5), but they do not show up in LabVIEW in the control list, and if you pull the list of DAQmx devices programmatically, they are not listed in there, either.

Must be something weird in MAX.