MAX can't see my Agilent 82357A GPIB/USB converter

[labstew]

Read the initial response, everything I needed was there. 

[Daric]

This topic is keep on going to many of us…. LabVIEW should be more “open” and make it easy for all users to have choice to connect their non NI instruments with LabVIEW.

I hate the reply like “how about replace your hardware to NI hardware‼” this is not work to us especially the economic recession situation right now, which company is willing to spend more money for this if the existing device is still working fine?? Or NI wants to free the replacement units to us??

I hope to see a more efficient solution like Plug & Play kind of solution in near future and the current solution/way is BAD.

[Dennis_Knutson]

What exactly are the problems you are having with the current 'plug and play' kind of solution? Did you in fact enable tulip support? What versions of NI-VISA and Agilent software do you have installed?

p.s. Here in the US, the price difference between the Agilent and NI USB controller is U$ 23. That's less an a half hour of an engineers time. Not enough, in my mind, to justify a non-NI purchase when buying new.

[Burban]

In the interest of providing our customers options in hardware, National Instruments does its best to make working with instruments from other manufactuers possible. NI publishes thousands of instrument drivers for third party hardware to ni.com/idnet, many of them plug and play type drivers. In addition, we publish documents to our website that outline how to configure third party hardware. The KnowledgeBase article that was discussed above is a good example of this.

If you are interested in learning more about how to integrate LabVIEW and third party instruments, the following links are helpful:

Communicate with the Latest Instruments Using LabVIEW Certified Plug and Play Drivers

Instrument Driver Network