So I've read many forums on this and it seems to be a common issue, which no one has figured out (from what I've read so far). I need to have the USB 6009 working on Ubuntu 12.04 for some field experiments and I don't have alternatives / options.
I decided to go ahead and try installing the drives. I found this page (http://maztories.blogspot.sg/2013/03/ni-usb-6008-card-can-be-installed-in.html) which I thought explained the steps in a simple way. I was able to install the latest versions of NI-KAL and NI-VISA with the steps mentioned. But I had problems installing NI-DAQmx Base.
I reached this point (alien -k --scripts *.rpm) where I got the error, the rpm packages are 32-bit (i386) and cannot be extracted on a 64-bit machine. I started looking at alternative ways to convert the RPM files to DEB.
I tried the steps below mentioned in this link (http://askubuntu.com/questions/215624/alien-cannot-built-package-for-architecture-ubuntu-amd64) but was stuck again at "...labview2010 / 2011 / 2012..." RPM files, which didn't have an "install" folder.
alien --to-tgz --scripts file.i386.rpm
mkdir unpack
cd unpack
tar -xpzf ../file.tgz
mv install ..
cp -rv * /
cd ../install
./doinst.sh
I continued looking for alternatives and found this link
and I followed the steps below.
The process is quite easy, in short you need to modify the control file and that's it.
sudo alien -g package-name.rpm
cd package-dir/
sudo vi debian/control
Now change the architecture (i386 in my case) to be the one you need. For example, I added the amd64 archicture and this is how the line ended up:
Architecture: i386, amd64
Last step:
sudo debian/rules binary
This will produce the .deb file.
I was able to create the DEB files successfully. I tried the next step of installing DEB file (dpkg -i *.deb) and it worked! I followed the remaining steps until ./updateNIDrivers and everything worked fine.
After this, I updated the firmware on DAQ to that of DAQmx base since I had used it on windows machine with DAQmx earlier. I followed the steps in these links:
https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/How-to-Update-Firmware-on-the-NI-USB-6008-6009-for-Use-with-th...
https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019MetSAE&l=en-US
I went back to Linux and tried connecting the USB DAQ. The LED light on the DAQ blinks. I tried the lsusb command and I get the following:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5800 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 3923:717b National Instruments Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:1814 Ricoh Co., Ltd HD Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
I see National Instruments Corp. as one device which means the DAQ is being recognized. But when I type lsdaq I get the following:
/usr/local/natinst/nidaqmxbase/bin$ lsdaq
--------------------------------
Detecting National Instruments DAQ Devices
Found the following DAQ Devices:
/usr/local/bin/lsdaq: line 7: /etc/natinst/nidaqmxbase/bin/daqmxbase_listdevices: No such file or directory
--------------------------------
I'm not sure what to do after this point. Since the error says No such file or directory, I don't know if the NI DAQmx base installed properly. Are the steps that I followed correct? Is converting RPM to DEB in the way I mentioned the right way?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I really need to get this working.
Thanks!
