Enet100 GPIB controller on 64 bit OS

[lecroy]

After having to upgrade to the new LabView because of a bug and seeing how poor its performance is, I decided to give it the benifit of the doubt and got a brand new Core 2 3GHz PC w/ 8G of RAM.   I figured the time I am wasting trying to use the new interface will pay for the PC.   I now have XP-Pro-64 bit installed to take advantage of the memory, plus most of the tools I use have 64-bit versions now. 

I went to install Labview and there appears to be no support for the Enet100 GPIB controller.    This is how I talk to most of the test equipment.  I know, your thinking why is he not using ethernet.  Some of the equipment doesn't support it, and some of the even newest equipment, like the Tek AWG7102 arbs software is so poor that the GPIB is actually a faster way to talk to it. 

Any idea when and/or if there will ever be new drivers to support the Enet100 on the newer 64-bit OSs?  

[chris_amadasun]

Hello Lecroy,

The GPIB ENET 100 is supported in Windows Vista x64.
NI 488.2 version 2.5 provides support for your Operating System.
This information can be found here.
You will need to be logged into your NI profile to view the content of that page.
Kindly navigate to the readme file and you will find information about
what Operating Systems are supported and any updates from previous
versions of the driver.

I hope I have answered your question?

[lecroy]

Thanks for your help!

I had been looking on:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6893

and noticed:

National Instruments Products XP x86 (32-bit) Vista x86 (32-bit) Vista x64 GPIB-ENET firmware A.5    

Assumed because there were no checks for it under Vista x64 there would be no driver.   I downloaded the drivers you linked to and they appear to work with XP Pro 64-bit even though there is no mention of this particular OS.   Tried a few things with the new PC and  LabView is still a little sluggish on it compared to 6.1 on a much slower PC.  But it at least shoud require less hair pulling....   

If I could just get NI to put the menus back to the way thay have been since the beginning of time and and allow me to do some sort of setup on that control menu so it does not pop up with that stupid express menu that I never seem to use.   If it were even smart enough to use the last setup I had it would go a long way to improve it.  Or, even better, give me back the old menus so I can find things faster...

[chris_amadasun]

Hello Lecroy,
I am glab you were able to download, install and use the gpib drivers and I can put in a product suggestion if you like.

[old_fart]

It appears that the problem is not drivers but the loader.   I went to install the VISA driver wizard and noticed that when I insert the latest 8.5 DVD with the drivers it comes up with a message that the 64 bit version of XP is not supported.  However when I look at the version of the GPIB and VISA drivers on NI's website, they match what is on the DVD.  I am downloading the VISA tool set next to see if it will work. 

[lecroy]

The VISA support seems to work as well.  Looks like the problem is in the main install program on the 8.5 DVD.