Getting old hardware running

Roel Jordans <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.gpib.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

Thanks for this great project!  I've just managed to get my new lab PC 
running with a HP82450A PCI card using Ubuntu 18.04 and the trunk code.  
Most of it works very nicely, I can access my RF generator and some 
other hardware perfectly.

One device is proving stubborn though, my old HP853A spectrum analyzer.  
According to the manual this one should listen to a few commands to 
export the data but currently it isn't responding for me.  In general 
there is no response from the device if it's the only one that's powered 
on and it prints "syntax err" on the screen if there is another device 
active and I'm communicating with that one.  My guess is currently that 
it's being picky about the handshaking or something but I'm not so 
familiar with GPIB yet.

As a second experiment I'd like to try to use the option to directly 
drive a plotter from the spectrum analyzer and see if I can get my PC to 
receive the data.  Is this something I can do with linux-gpib?  A first 
step would probably require met to get the card into a listening state 
and just dump the intercepted data to an output but I have no clue on 
how to get started here.

Cheers,

  Roel


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