Is it possible to get NI USB-6218 working on Fedora Core 8?

[scstop]

Hi Everybody,

  DAQ ni USB-6218 can be found under my Fedora Core8 OS, but cannot work.Is it possible to get NI USB-6218 working on Fedora Core 8?

(1)output of  uname -a on my machine is
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

(2)I installed DAQmbase 3.1.0. I can find the device by running lsdaq
[root@localhost bin]# ./lsdaq
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Detecting National Instruments DAQ Devices
Found the following DAQ Devices:
NI USB-6218: "Dev1"    (USB0::0x3923::0x7272::012E65EA::RAW)
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(3) The problems is that when I run examples under folder /examples, I need to wait a few seconds to get the outputs.

when running /examples/ai/acqurieNSample, the output of the converted value is 0.000.
When I run example under folder /examples/ao, there is no output on the DAQ card.

Thank you!

[Ana P]

Hi scstop,

I noticed from another post that you had to modify nikal.c in order to successfully install the drivers. Currently National Instruments drivers and software are not supported in Fedora distribution. Therefore, I cannot guarantee that your application will work, however I have a few questions for clarification. When you run the examples from the example folder you need to wait for a few seconds to get outputs, do you get the expected outputs or even after waiting you don’t get any output at all? What voltage do you have present in the analog input? What is the actual value of the signal that you are measuring when you get readings of zero? Also, are you using a reference trigger in these examples? From the DAQmx Base 3.1 readme file: "NI-DAQmx Base 3.1 does NOT support reference trigger capabilities on the USB-621x devices."

[scstop]

Dear Sir,
  Thank you for your reply. I switch to Mandriva 2007.