Hello,
I'm attempting to get a PCIe 6535B working on Ubuntu 22.04. TL;DR it doesn't work for some reason.
The system sees the card
gmac@nicfps-test-icc:~/Documents/dev/ni$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4630 (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 4692 (rev 0c)
00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Platform Monitoring Technology (rev 01)
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ae0 (rev 11)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device 7aa7 (rev 11)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7acc (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ae8 (rev 11)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ae2 (rev 11)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ab8 (rev 11)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7aba (rev 11)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7a87 (rev 11)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 7ad0 (rev 11)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 7aa3 (rev 11)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7aa4 (rev 11)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (17) I219-V (rev 11)
01:00.0 Signal processing controller: National Instruments PCIe-6535B
03:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 04)
I've got DAQmx installed
gmac@nicfps-test-icc:~/Documents/dev/ni$ dpkg -l ni-daqmx*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-============-====================================================================>
ii ni-daqmx 24.5.0.49564-0+f412 all Provides support for NI data acquisition and signal conditioning dev>
ii ni-daqmx-cdaq-firmware 24.5.0.49563-0+f411 amd64 NI-DAQmx firmware for CompactDAQ devices
ii ni-daqmx-dsa 24.5.0.49588-0+f436 all NI-DAQmx DSA support
ii ni-daqmx-dsa-libs 24.5.0.49588-0+f436 amd64 NI-DAQmx DSA libraries
....and many more packages.
And DAQmx seems to be seeing the card
gmac@nicfps-test-icc:~/Documents/dev/ni$ lsni -v
Scanning localhost for devices...
System Configuration API Experts found:
NI-DAQmx 24.5 (daqmx)
NI Device Interconnect Manager 24.5.0 (nidim)
NI-CONTROLLER 24.5 (ni-controller)
NI Network Browser 24.5 (network)
NI MX Routing Utility 24.5.0 (nimru)
NI-MXI 24.5 (ni-mxi)
NI PXI Platform Services 24.5 (ni-pxi)
NI-QPXI 24.5 (ni-qpxi)
NI System Configuration 24.5 (nisyscfg)
NI-RTSI 24.5 (rtsi)
System Configuration API resources found:
nicfps-test-icc
--Primary Expert: NI System Configuration 24.5
--Model Name: System Product Name
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0
--Primary Expert: NI System Configuration 24.5
--Bus/Dev/Func: 1/0/0
Ethernet Adapter eno1
--Primary Expert: NI System Configuration 24.5
I've got a device at `/dev/nipalk` and checking the loaded modules gives
gmac@nicfps-test-icc:~/Documents/dev/ni$ lsmod | grep ni
nimru2k 774144 3
nipxirmk 303104 1
nimxdfk 593920 5 nimru2k
nimdbgk 466944 7 nimru2k,nipxirmk,nimxdfk
nidimk 376832 6 nimru2k,nipxirmk
niorbk 122880 5 nimdbgk,nimru2k,nipxirmk,nimxdfk,nidimk
nipalk 1196032 12 nimdbgk,nimru2k,niorbk,nipxirmk,nimxdfk,nidimk
nikal 139264 7 nimdbgk,nimru2k,niorbk,nipxirmk,nimxdfk,nidimk,nipalk
But `nilsdev` doesn't return any devices, and none of the C or Python examples return anything. I get errors like
DAQmx Error: Device identifier is invalid.
Device Specified: Dev1
Task Name: _unnamedTask<0>
Status Code: -200220
What am I missing??