PXI-1033 Linux Support

[tingfan]

Hi,

I have a setup with one PC connected to a USB-6009 and PXI-1033 chassis.

On windows both of the hardware work perfect.

Now I want to switch to Linux.

I installed

(1) NI-DAQmx Base 3.4 - SUSE, RedHat

(2) PXI Platform Services 2.6 - Linux - Beta

on a Scientific Linux 5.5

Everything went pretty well, no errors. I answered yes to all questions

Now, when I run lsdaq, only USB6009 is seen.

nipxi/nipxiconfig -l all shows nothing.

Is PXI-1033 supported on Linux ?

[Timothy_S]

The 1033 isn't directly listed as being supported under that version of the PXI Platform services. Reference the Readme file for that driver release at http://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/PXI/PXI%20Platform%20Services%20%28Linux%29/README.txt to see the full list of supported devices. Have you been able to get any cards in particular inside the chassis to be recognized? I see that you are using Scientific Linux 5.5. Is this the 32-bit version? 

[tingfan]

The PXI chassis is configured as the following

Slot 2,3 PXI-6255

Slot 4-6 PXI-6723

Connected to PC using PXIe-8361

nipxiconfig did not identify any card or chassis.

However, I believe the hardware connection is OK as I have the following lspci result

lspci

02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8505 5-lane, 5-port PCI Express Switch (rev aa)
03:03.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8505 5-lane, 5-port PCI Express Switch (rev aa)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
05:0b.0 Class ff00: National Instruments Unknown device 70ff
05:0c.0 Class ff00: National Instruments Unknown device 70ff
05:0d.0 Class ff00: National Instruments Unknown device 70ff
05:0e.0 Class ff00: National Instruments Unknown device 71e1
05:0f.0 Class ff00: National Instruments Unknown device 71e1

[Seth_B.]

The reason that neither the PXI-6255s not the PXI-6723s are showing up is that neither board is supported in NI-DAQmx Base.  The PXI-6723 is supported on Linux in NI-DAQmx 8.0.2 (which supports SUSE 11.0 and RHEL 5) but the PXI-6255 is not currently supported in any driver on Linux.  You'll need to use NI-DAQmx on a Windows PC in order to use those boards.