installing NI-DAQmx Base 3.2 and NI-VISA 4.4 on Centos

[melissasoriano]

Hi,

I am trying to install Ni-DAQmx Base 3.2 and (as a prerequisite) NI-VISA 4.4.

I am using CentOS 4.8.

Linux  dhcp0.lab 2.6.9-89.0.23.EL #1 Wed Mar 17 06:22:05 EDT 2010 i686 i686  i386 GNU/Linux

I used yum to  get  /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-89.0.23.EL-i686.  At first I was getting an  error about the kernel-source being missing but I edited  nikal/src/configure because I believe that the kernel source that I have  corresponds to the one on the system.

When I run the  ni-visa INSTALL, I get an error about nipal/nipalk.ko being missing:

NI-VISA  Runtime 4.4.0 requires NI-VISA Runtime Kernel 4.4.0.
This component  has been selected automatically.

NI-VISA Development 4.4.0  requires CVI Runtime 8.0.
NI-VISA Configuration 4.4.0 requires CVI  Runtime 8.0.
This component has been selected automatically.

NI-VISA  Runtime 4.4.0 requires NI-ORB 1.9.0.
PXI Services 1.6.0 requires  NI-ORB 1.9.0.
NI-ORB 1.9.0 (f0) already installed.

PXI  Services 1.6.0 requires NI-DIM 1.9.0.
NI-DIM 1.9.0 (f0) already  installed.

NI-ORB 1.9.0 requires NI-RPC 4.0.0.
NI-RPC 4.0.0  (f1) already installed.

NI-VISA Runtime 4.4.0 requires NI-PAL  2.3.0.
PXI Services 1.6.0 requires NI-PAL 2.3.0.
NI-DIM 1.9.0  requires NI-PAL 2.3.0.
NI-ORB 1.9.0 requires NI-PAL 2.3.0.
NI-PAL  2.3.0 (f1) already installed.

NI-PAL 2.3.0 requires NI-PAL Kernel  Support 2.3.0.
NI-PAL Kernel Support 2.3.0 (f1) already installed.

NI-PAL  2.3.0 requires NI-KAL 1.8.0.
NI-KAL 1.8.0 (f0) already installed.

NI-VISA  Development 4.4.0 requires LabVIEW Runtime 8.2.1.
NI Spy 2.6.0  requires LabVIEW Runtime 8.2.1.
LabVIEW Runtime 8.2.1 (2) already  installed.

The following components will be installed using rpm:
   NI-VISA Runtime 4.4.0              3113 KB  (in /usr/local/vxipnp)
   NI-VISA Runtime Kernel 4.4.0        109 KB  (in /usr/local/vxipnp)
   NI-VISA Development 4.4.0          9685 KB  (in /usr/local/vxipnp)
   NI-VISA Configuration 4.4.0         500 KB  (in /usr/local/vxipnp)
   NI-VISA Server 4.4.0                236 KB  (in /usr/local/vxipnp)
   CVI Runtime 8.0                    8555 KB  (in  /usr/local/natinst/cvirte)
Total space required:               22198  KB
Space available:                222036856 KB

Continue? [Yn]  y

Installing selected components ...

Preparing...                 ########################################### [100%]
    1:nicvirte               ########################################### [  17%]
   2:nivisak                 ########################################### [ 33%]
    3:nivisa                 ########################################### [  50%]
   4:nivisa-devel            ########################################### [ 67%]
    5:nivisa-config          ########################################### [  83%]
   6:nivisaserver            ########################################### [100%]

Running  NI-VISA Runtime Kernel Post Installation Script ...

Running  NI-VISA Runtime Post Installation Script ...

error:  /lib/modules/2.6.9-89.0.23.EL/kernel/natinst/nipal/nipalk.ko not found
error:  Please compile and install nipalk.ko by running
error:   updateNIDrivers

When I run updateNIDrivers, I see that  nikal/nikal.ko is generated, but no nipal directory or nipal/nipalk.ko  exists.

How can I obtain nipalk.ko?  Why isn't it being  generated?  After "Installing selected components" why aren't these percentages all 100%?

Any advice or similar experiences would be very much appreciated.  Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Melissa Soriano

Tracking Systems and Applications

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

[mhoogend]

Preparing...                 ########################################### [100%]
    1:nicvirte               ########################################### [  17%]
   2:nivisak                 ########################################### [ 33%]
    3:nivisa                 ########################################### [  50%]
   4:nivisa-devel            ########################################### [ 67%]
    5:nivisa-config          ########################################### [  83%]
   6:nivisaserver            ########################################### [100%]

After "Installing selected components" why aren't these percentages all 100%?

This is the behavior.  The rpm -h output that these hashes come from adds up to 100% after everything is finished.  Each line is just showing how far along you are towards completion of installing all rpm packages.

Not getting the nipalk.ko is a little odd though given the information you've posted so far.  Could you give some more info?  2 things that might be helpful are:

- output of updateNIDrivers

- output of niSystemReport (this is really big, run `niSystemReport > system.log` and post system.log)

Looking to make sure that updateNIDrivers is actually trying to update nipalk, and niSystemReport will tell us many things including what binaries are installed on your system.

[melissasoriano]

It turned out that UNISTALL was not sucessfully uninstalling the current NI-DAQmx Base package completely.  Subsequent modifications and installations had no effect because the previous NI-DAQmx package was still in place.  We removed the package using "rm", reninstalled, and were able to find the NI card using nilidev and get data back using DAQmxTestPanels.

Please note that at first, the card was installed in slot 2 and was not found by nilidev.  We moved the card to slot 0 and the card was recognized successfully.