Connecting USB-6211 to Ubuntu 12.04 with Linux Kernel 3.5

[me1234]

Hi,

I've been trying to get NI-DAQmx Base 3.5 to work, but I've been having several problems with installation.

Namely, when I run lsdaq, it returns this:

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Detecting National Instruments DAQ Devices
Found the following DAQ Devices:
libnipalu.so failed to initialize
Perhaps you need to run updateNIDrivers
Aborted (core dumped)
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In terms of supporting software, I've installed NI-KAL 2.3.1 without a problem (or at least it displayed that it installed successfully), but I'm not sure my installation of NI-VISA 5.3 went through properly - I ended up using cpio and manually copying and pasting the files in place. From the NI-DAQmx 3.5, I used Alien to convert the i386 rpm packages to x86-64 deb ones and them with dpkg.

What should I try next? Is it actually possible to get this working?

[WishKebab]

Hello me1234, 

Officially, National Instruments drivers and software don't support any distributions of Ubuntu Linux.  See the following link for our officially supported distributions:

What Linux Distributions Do National Instruments Drivers and Software Support?

That being said, you may be able to use an older version of Ubuntu with a 2.6 (or earlier) kernel.  Let me know if you have any questions.  Best of luck!

[me1234]

Hmm I gave up trying to make it work on Ubuntu, and I'm now trying to install it through OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 on Virtualbox. Do you know if there will be any problems because of the virtual machine?

[WishKebab]

Emulated machines generally don't interface very well (or at all) with the hardware.  If you are only using it to develop, then you may be okay, but if you want to actually interface with any devices, you should stick to a native operating system.  Cheers!