Hello,
I am trying to use a NI PCI-6220 M Series with NI-DAQmx Base 3.4 on openSUSE 11.2 with kernel version 2.6.31.14-0.6.
I started by carefully reading the README file and following all the instructions for openSUSE (make cloneconfig, make modules_prepare). The installation appears to have gone smoothly. However, after using lsdaq, the following error happens:
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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
/usr/local/bin/lsdaq: line 7: 7081 Aborted /etc/natinst/nidaqmxbase/bin/daqmxbase_listdevices
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Of course I ran updateNIDrivers, which yields the following results:
linux-ha1x:/usr/local/bin # ./updateNIDrivers
Configuring for linux kernel version 2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop.
********************************* NOTE *********************************
Using kernel headers found in /lib/modules/2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop/source.
If this does not correspond to the location of the 2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop headers,
then define KERNELHEADERS in your environment to point to the location
of the kernel headers, define KERNELTARGET as the version of the
kernel for which to compile, and then rerun ./configure.
********************************* NOTE *********************************
Kernel has reparent_to_init(): no
Number of arguments for do_munmap(): 3
pte_offset function: pte_offset_kernel()
Levels in page table: 4
Kernel has remap_pfn_range: yes
Kernel has kzalloc: yes
USB altsetting name: cur_altsetting
Kernel has usb_get_intf(): yes
Kernel has intf_cache member in usb_host_config: yes
Kernel has ep[] members in usb_device: yes
Kernel exports usb_set_configuration(): no
Units of USB_CTRL_GET_TIMEOUT: msec
Kernel has owner member in usb_driver: no
Kernel has put_page_testzero(): yes
Kernel has mutex method: yes
Kernel has wait_for_completion_interruptible: yes
Kernel has config.h: no
Kernel has ioctl32.h: no
IRQ handlers have pt_regs: no
Kernel has work_struct and delayed_work: yes
Kernel supports fault method in vm_operations_struct: yes
Kernel uses 'generated' dir: no
Storing configuration in Makefile.in
If the values stored are incorrect they can be changed before running make.
Installing NI-KAL:
NI-KAL successfully updated.
Updating client modules:
nipalk.ko successfully updated.
NiViPciK.ko successfully updated.
niorbk.ko successfully updated.
nidimk.ko successfully updated.
NiViPxiK.ko successfully updated.
nipxirmk.ko successfully updated.
Rebooting is required to ensure that National Instruments drivers
have been successfully updated.
Would you like to reboot now? [yes|no]
I did some searching on the forums and found this thread: http://forums.ni.com/t5/Multifunction-DAQ/libnipalu-so-failed-to-initialize/td-p/1253838#M59781
I tried the solution proposed by Nathan2 and when trying to copy to Module.symvers I get the following message at the end: gzip:
Module.symvers.gz: No such file or directory
As an additional piece of information, it seems like there's a problem with nipal. I found in the forum that it could be that the module nipal is not running, and after trying to make it start the following happens:
linux-ha1x:/usr/src/linux # /etc/init.d/nipal start
FATAL: Error inserting nipalk (/lib/modules/2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop/kernel/natinst/nipal/nipalk.ko): Invalid module format
error: nipalk failed to load
possible causes:
nipalk was not versioned for this kernel (2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop)
modules are not enabled for this kernel (CONFIG_MODULES)
unresolved symbols
possible solution:
if you recently installed a new kernel or have rebooted to
a different kernel then you were previously running then run
/usr/local/bin/updateNIDrivers
to version your NI drivers for kernel 2.6.31.14-0.6-desktop
I see that most users attach a "niSystemReport". I'm new to linux and I have no idea where to find this file. If it's needed please tell me where it is so I can look for it.
Thanks a lot in advance for your help. I've been trying to get this to work for over 2 days and I've run out of options.
