Still looking - Solaris drivers for GPIB board.

I am still looking for the Solaris (SPARC) drivers for a PCI based National Instruments GPIB board. Anyone have them spare?

This is for a *home* project (not a professional one), comparing one oscillator (quarts) against another (rubidium) for stability. As such, I am unable to justify the cost of the drivers from National Instruments.

(They are more expensive than the card, although I did not buy the card new. In fact, if I was to buy the drivers new, they would cost me more than the card and the time inerval counter I will use to compare the two oscillators).

I'm sure someone must have them sitting around and not using them. I've looked on eBay, but have drawn a blank.

If you can help in any way, please drop me an email to:

Resign, Go with the flow:

Get the absolute cheapest Windows XP PeeCee that can possibly run the Card, VIA Epia f.ex. are Neat, or steal one out of a dumpster.

Set up a suitable proxy to run the card over TCP/IP, hide the Win-XP box somewhere where it cannot be seen from the Solaris box and pretend to be pure in spirit.

Does this help?

Cheers,

Ram

Isn't that software for controling a $500 piece of external hardware that comes from National Instruments? The hardware looks to me like an Ethernet to HPIB bridge.

carl

Thanks, but none of this is necessary now - I found the drivers in Labview will work independatly of it, so I'm not tied to using labview, although I might well learn that for future use. But someone sent me a bit of C code to control the instrument I have, and it seems to work OK (after a few changes, as he used OpenBSD, and I'm using Solaris).