Re: Fwd: Re: gpib0 device missing

Bruno Garbin <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:24:43 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.gpib.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you all for your help.

I just had to load the appropriate module.. (tnt4882, obtained from 
https://linux-gpib.sourceforge.io/doc_html/supported-hardware.html).

So I ran:
modprobe tnt4882
and then the command gpib_config worked fine.

Thank you again for your quick helps.

Cheers,

Bruno

On 2/18/20 11:19 AM, Richard Klingler wrote:
> From my memory I would say you don't have privileges to access 
> /dev/gpib0...
>
> So add your user account to the gpib group...
>
> cheers
> richard
>
>
> Am Di., 18. Feb. 2020 um 11:13 Uhr schrieb Bruno Garbin 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>
>     Hi
>
>     The card is recognized. lspci gives
>     10:00.0 Communication controller: National Instruments PCI-GPIB
>     (rev 01)
>
>     Also I issued the commands
>
>       * depmod -ae (make it possible for modprobe to see the new modules)
>       * modprobe gpib_common
>       * modprobe agilent_82357a
>
>     Now the /dev/gpib[0-15] devices are created !!
>     However, ibtest fails :
>
>     Do you wish to open a (d)evice or an interface (b)oard?
>         (you probably want to open a device): d
>     enter primary gpib address for device you wish to open [0-30]: 10
>     trying to open pad = 10 on /dev/gpib0 ...
>     libgpib: IBOPENDEV ioctl failed
>     libgpib: error in is_cic()!
>     ibdev error
>
>     ibsta = 0x8000  < ERR >
>     iberr= 0
>     EDVR 0: OS error
>
>     ibcntl = 19
>     Aborted (core dumped)
>
>     Any idea ?
>
>     Thanks in advance
>
>     On 2/18/20 10:20 AM, Richard Klingler wrote:
>>     Well
>>
>>     Is your GPIB adapter recognized by Linux at all? DO you see it
>>     with lsusb/lspci?
>>
>>     To my (older ;o) knowledge it won't create any /dev/gpibX entries
>>     when there is no adapter recognized...
>>
>>     cheers
>>     richard
>>
>>
>>     Am Di., 18. Feb. 2020 um 10:13 Uhr schrieb Bruno Garbin
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>
>>         Dear all,
>>
>>         can anyone help?
>>
>>         Thank you in advance,
>>
>>         Bruno
>>
>>         -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>         Subject: 	Re: [Linux-gpib-general] gpib0 device missing
>>         Date: 	Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:23:16 +0100
>>         From: 	Bruno Garbin <[email protected]>
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>>         To: 	Thomas Klima <[email protected]>
>>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>
>>         Hi Thomas,
>>
>>         thanks for your reply.
>>
>>         I just installed the kernel drivers in the same way
>>         (configure, make, make install) and run the command gpib_config.
>>         This returned me the error:
>>         failed to open device file '/dev/gpib0'
>>         main: No such file or directory
>>
>>         Do you have any idea of what is going wrong here?
>>
>>         Thank you in advance.
>>
>>         Kind regards,
>>
>>         Bruno garbin
>>
>>
>>         On 15/02/20 10:53 am, Thomas Klima wrote:
>>>         Hi,
>>>
>>>         On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:40:22 +0100
>>>         Bruno Garbin <[email protected]>
>>>         <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>         I have installed linux-gpib on my machine (kernel 5.3.0-28
>>>>         Ubuntu
>>>>         18.04) and /dev/gpib0 is not created after the install of
>>>>         linux-gpib-user-4.3.0. What should I do ?
>>>         You need the kernel drivers (linux-gpib-kernel-...), a
>>>         config file
>>>         (/etc/gpib.conf) and then run gpib_config - this creates the
>>>         device
>>>         files under /dev
>>>
>>>         hth,
>>>         Thomas
>>>
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