Software Installation And Configuration; Ni-488.2M Software Components - National Instruments AT-GPIB/TNT Getting Started

Chapter 3

Software Installation and Configuration

This chapter contains instructions to help you install and configure your NI-488.2M
software.
Before you install the software, consider the following:
• You must have super-user privilege.
• The NI-488.2M distribution disk is in tar format.
• If you have the default module of the National Instruments ESP-488 for LynxOS
device driver (esp488.o) installed on your system, you must remove the ESP-488
driver before installing the NI-488.2M driver. Other ESP-488 driver modules (for
example, esp488_2.o) can safely coexist with the NI-488.2M driver as long as the
drivers are not configured to control the same GPIB board(s).

NI-488.2M Software Components

The NI-488.2M distribution disk contains the following files:
• cib.c is the C language interface library.
• cib.h is the private include file for cib.c .
• ib.cfg is the LynxOS configuration file for the NI-488.2M driver.
• ib_lynxos.o is the NI-488.2M driver for the GPIB board.
• ibconf is the software configuration utility.
• ibic is the interface bus interactive control utility.
• ibinfo.c is the GPIB board configuration file for manual software installation.
• ibinfo.h is the private include file for ibinfo.c.
• ibtsta is the software installation test, part A.
• ibtstb is the software installation test, part B.
• instgpib is the automatic install script for the driver.
• ugpib.h is the include file for user programs.
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