Hello everybody!
Sorry for digging this old subject up again.
The thing is as follows :
I got a NI USB 6501 DI/O a couple of weeks ago, and I tried using it with Windows 7, it worked like a charm, no issues whatsoever (at least, none in my field of interest). However, I tried to make it work on Ubuntu 9.10 (kernel version 2.6.31-16-generic), and I haven't been successful. I searched the forums, found a couple of good topics that got me going (in a manner of speaking), but, where others have suceeded, I failed.
I managed to install old NIDAQmxBase 3.1 drivers following the last post in http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=250&thread.id=36713&view=by_date_ascending&page=2.
However, after the installation, upon the invocation of "lsdaq", it found nothing. To cut the story short, I got the exact same thing as http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=250&message.id=47466&query.id=3382069#M47466 (except the kernel version and dmesg).
I followed the link that was given to him ( http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=250&message.id=34124&requireLogin=False ) and the link he gave ( http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=250&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=46206#M46206 ) and then i did this :
first I switched the driver version (downdated the firmware) to NIDAQmxBase 3.1 from Windows. I tried plugging it in on Ubuntu again, and still no success. Then I tried to reconfigure the kernel and follow Johannes's instructions, but nikal and nipalk wouldn't install, something about nipalk not being made for this kernel version (2.6.31-16-generic).
And now, I don't know what to do next 😄
Funny thing is that when I try to run the given DI/O examples, there are no errors, even though "Dev1/port:0" doesn't exist since my device doesn't enumerate at all. But no, it doesn't work (checked the outputs with a multimeter, they're all on default values ( +4.86V).
So, thank you in advanced, and I hope there is a solution to this problem.
Cheers,
Robert
