i am trying to communicate

[doctorelbow]

with a robotic arm which is attached to the parallel port. When I try to run the program an error appears that says "(Hex 0xBFFF0011) insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." How can I remedy this problem?Also, when I go into MAX and pull up the parallel port icon it has a yellow exclamation mark in front of it. What does this mean and how can I fix it?

[Jonnie_5]

with a robotic arm which is attached to the parallel port. When I try to run the program an error appears that says "(Hex 0xBFFF0011) insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." How can I remedy this problem?I'd first check to make sure the parallel port is properly configured by the OS.

Assuming some version of windows:
Are there any conflicts/issues w/ the PP in the hardware device manager?
Start Menu->Settings/Control Panels->System->Device Manager

One issue could be a misconfiguration in the system BIOS. I've found the fewest problems when the BIOS is set to Plug & Play OS and the PP is set to be AUTO configured.

Also, when first diagnosing it, do the checks w/o anything connected to the port.

[Jeremy Braden]

with a robotic arm which is attached to the parallel port. When I try to run the program an error appears that says "(Hex 0xBFFF0011) insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." How can I remedy this problem?I am not sure what is causing the error. I am not even sure of the protocol you are using to communicate to the parallel port (I suspect it is VISA). Since you are most familiar with the problem you will be the best person to look through NI's site for an answer. Go to advanced search and look for parallel port labview .


Be sure to check the mode of the port as set in the bios.

[doctorelbow]

with a robotic arm which is attached to the parallel port. When I try to run the program an error appears that says "(Hex 0xBFFF0011) insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." How can I remedy this problem?I have already browsed through ni's search for this problem. I think there is a problem with a driver installed on my pc that is used for a robot arm that is connected through the parallel port. For some reason labview cannot communicate with the robot because of this driver. If I uninstall the driver then the robot will definitely not work, obviously.

Can I adjust labview somehow to overcome this barrier?

How do I check the mode of the parallel port as set in the bios?

[Dennis_Knutson]

with a robotic arm which is attached to the parallel port. When I try to run the program an error appears that says "(Hex 0xBFFF0011) insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." How can I remedy this problem?You can either communicate with your device with the provided driver or with VISA but not both. I think it's more an OS thing than anything to do with LabVIEW. If you have documentation on the provided driver, then you can perhaps use the Call Library Function Node to access the driver DLL.

[doctorelbow]

with a robotic arm which is attached to the parallel port. When I try to run the program an error appears that says "(Hex 0xBFFF0011) insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." How can I remedy this problem?How exactly would I use the call library function node to access the parallel port and communicate with the robot arm?

What is the "driver DLL?"

[Dennis_Knutson]

with a robotic arm which is attached to the parallel port. When I try to run the program an error appears that says "(Hex 0xBFFF0011) insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system." How can I remedy this problem?You said that the robot arm came with a driver. Typically this is DLL. I'm assuming that this works but you want to integrate control of the arm with a LabVIEW program. Hopefully the vendor can provide and API (Application Program Interface) that describes the functions in the DLL. The DLL would do all of the communication to the device through the parallel port. If you want to use LabVIEW functions (i.e. outport or VISA Write) to talk to the serial port, then I think you'll have to uninstall the driver and duplicate it's functions.