From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 08:00:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA26379 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 08:00:17 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA26373 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 08:00:13 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id KAA02765; Thu, 25 May 1995 10:59:36 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199505251459.KAA02765@hda.com> Subject: Re: National Instruments TNT4882C driver To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 10:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505250626.PAA18614@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 25, 95 03:56:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1075 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: > > I remember hearing from someone a while ago about a driver for the > NI TNT4882C chip (High-speed IEEE 488 part). Anyone have a reference > for this, or a pointer to the author(s)? > > In particular, I'm curious to know how fast they manage to get it to go, > and, presuming NI do a PCI version of the board (which would make a lot > of sense), how much faster it could be convinced to go 8) > I don't know if this is the what you want, but Fred Cawthorne's (fcawth@delphi.umd.edu) gpib driver in /sys/i386/isa/gpib.c says: > * GPIB driver for FreeBSD. > * Version 0.1 (No interrupts, no DMA) > * Supports National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT boards. > * (AT-GPIB not tested, but it should work) which at least says "TNT" in it. It also says: > * Version 0.1 (No interrupts, no DMA) so it could use a few days of work. I don't know how much use it gets. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267