Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:22:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, John Galbraith <john@ece.arizona.edu>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, john@ece1.ece.arizona.edu Subject: Re: new GPIB driver revision available Message-ID: <199810191922.MAA00759@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:04:58 %2B0200." <20225.908823898@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> 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
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