From: hank@Blimp.automat.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger) Subject: Re: GPIB driver Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1993 10:12:04 GMT
Mark Buckaway (mark@datasoft.north.net) wrote:
: Bernd Mielke (mielke@risc4.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: : We plan to build up physical experiment controlled by a PC under Linux. The
: : communication with the external devices should go via a GPIB interface.
: : From the Linux FAQ and the netnews it is not clear, wether there is a driver
: : available, or we should do a good thing for the community.
: : If the first case is true, I would like to know, how to get the driver?
: : What kind of cards are supported?
: : If the second case is true :-(, I'm afraid this is more probably, any help
: : and suggestions are wellcome, to encourage us, to write such a driver.
: I do not think such as driver exists. There is not much call for GPIB
: as usually only test instuments use this. However, I am sure there are
: people that would appreciate someone writing one. There should be
: enough info on writing Linux drivers for you to do it yourself (if you
: have programming experience).
Sure enough! I would certainly be interested in such a driver. Due to
a nasty exam I won't be able to help before October, but then I'd most
willingly add myself to the development team (if only as a alpha thru
omega tester).
Also I think a GPIB/IEEE driver would help linux a lot. It'd be much
easier for me to convince other people in our lab to dump the
MS-Dis-Operating-System in favor of something real.
Hank.