From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 19 12:23:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09409 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:23:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09404 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:23:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00759; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810191922.MAA00759@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , John Galbraith , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, john@ece1.ece.arizona.edu Subject: Re: new GPIB driver revision available In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:04:58 +0200." <20225.908823898@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:22:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In message <199810191858.LAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> Sorry for pestering you with this, I've found a card at a reasonable > >> price which says "hardware compatible with NI-GPIB PCIIA", do you > >> think your driver would run that card ? > > > >Does it have an NI TNT chip on it? The "old" NI GPIB cards used the TI > >GPIB controller chip, and I don't think John's driver will work (well, > >if at all) with that. > > > >There's actually four different NI cards; the really old NEC-based > >ones, the TI based ones, the TI based ones with the GPIB accelerator > >chip and the TNT based cards. > > And what I'm trying to figure out is "If I tell my client to call the > Danish rep for Nat.Inst, what should he tell them that he wants to buy ?" You tell your client that you'll buy the board, and put a 20% markup on it. Should be quite profitable. 8) If you want to buy the "real thing" National Instruments card, that's the AT-GPIB/TNT. Don't get the PnP one unless you want to add PnP support to John's driver. I can't give you the URL off National Instruments' webpage, as it's a mile long. Their online store price is US$495.oo -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message