Ok, replying to myself: sorry for the noise, it was a hardware problem. Inserting the card in another machine (to check it) and back in the original one solved the problem. Talk about a hardware hacker :(...
Regards, Stephane On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:37 +0200, Stephane Barland wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to acquire data from various lab equipment through the GPIB > interface. Using sarge (stock kernel 2.6.8-2-686), I installed the > gpib-modules-source package and compiled it (with module-assistant), > which went fine. The card (National Instruments PCI-GPIB) is apparently > correctly configured (no error message from gpib_config). Using either > ibtest or the python bindings for libgpib, I can send data to the > instruments. This works. However, if I try to read from any instrument > (both with ibtest of from a python shell) the computer simply reboots. > I did not find anything in the logs which could help since the reboot is > really instantaneous... > > Any hint? > > Regards, > > Stephane > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
