Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-19 Thread Terry Lambert
 : Yeah, this doesn't comple for some reason as of about 1.0r4. The port just
 : doesn't bother trying to install it - no-one's cared enough to look at why
 : it's broken and how to fix it.
 
 It is broken because it assume too many implementation details about
 symbols being defined.  A more accurate description would be that no
 one has cared enough to actually fix it. :-)

This seems to me to be a perfect use for netgraph: a socks based
interface in the kernel so that applications didn't need to be
brutalized to work with socks.

Hee hee hee...

Would this be a transparent socksy?


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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message 
pine.osf.4.05.9902101658550.21416-100...@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au Kris 
Kennaway writes:
: runsocks works fine for me in socksifying the stuff I use it for
: (FTP clients, simple TCP apps, etc). What are you having problems
: with?

I have verified that runsocks works with both a.out and elf binaries
(but not both at the same time) with the most current port.  It does
not work for statically linked binaries.  Anything outside of that are
that isn't pilot error is a bug that I'd be interested in...

Warner


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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990210135902.a7...@internal Andre Albsmeier writes:
: Hmm, just finished my 3.1 upgrade, compiled socks and runsocks seems
: to work now. The only thing that doesn't work is compiling the telnet
: included with socks5:
: 
: cc -I. -I../../include -I./../../include -O -pipe -DANDRE 
-D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__  -DHAVE_SETUPTERM  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES 
-DKLUDGELINEMODE  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES -o telnet authenc.o commands.o 
main.o network.o ring.o sys_bsd.o telnet.o terminal.o tn3270.o utilities.o 
-L../../lib -lsocks5   -lcrypt   -lncurses -Llibtelnet -ltelnet
: telnet.o: In function `gettermname':
: telnet.o(.text+0x9f2): undefined reference to `ttytype'
: *** Error code 1 (continuing)
: `all' not remade because of errors.
: 
: But this doesn't bother me because always I runsocks the FreeBSD telnet.
: 
: Anyway, I will keep on experimenting on my home machine (where it failed
: yesterday) and look what happened. Maybe it was just to late in the evening

Ah yes.  the telnet bug.  I had forgotten about that one.  I'll try to
fix it shortly.  In fact, most of the r utilities that socks creates
could likely be better integrated with FreeBSD's commands.  I'll look
into how hard that would be.

Warner


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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message 
pine.osf.4.05.9902120002140.29581-100...@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au Kris 
Kennaway writes:
: Yeah, this doesn't comple for some reason as of about 1.0r4. The port just
: doesn't bother trying to install it - no-one's cared enough to look at why
: it's broken and how to fix it.

It is broken because it assume too many implementation details about
symbols being defined.  A more accurate description would be that no
one has cared enough to actually fix it. :-)

Warner


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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-16 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 16-Feb-1999 at 22:05:05 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
 In message 
 pine.osf.4.05.9902101658550.21416-100...@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au 
 Kris Kennaway writes:
 : runsocks works fine for me in socksifying the stuff I use it for
 : (FTP clients, simple TCP apps, etc). What are you having problems
 : with?
 
 I have verified that runsocks works with both a.out and elf binaries
 (but not both at the same time) with the most current port.  It does
 not work for statically linked binaries.  Anything outside of that are
 that isn't pilot error is a bug that I'd be interested in...

Must have been a pilot error. Now it's working (The first time, I
did it very late at night :-)).

-Andre

 
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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote:

 Hmm, just finished my 3.1 upgrade, compiled socks and runsocks seems
 to work now. The only thing that doesn't work is compiling the telnet
 included with socks5:
 
 cc -I. -I../../include -I./../../include -O -pipe -DANDRE 
 -D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__  -DHAVE_SETUPTERM  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES 
 -DKLUDGELINEMODE  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES -o telnet authenc.o commands.o 
 main.o network.o ring.o sys_bsd.o telnet.o terminal.o tn3270.o utilities.o 
 -L../../lib -lsocks5   -lcrypt   -lncurses -Llibtelnet -ltelnet
 telnet.o: In function `gettermname':
 telnet.o(.text+0x9f2): undefined reference to `ttytype'
 *** Error code 1 (continuing)
 `all' not remade because of errors.
 
 But this doesn't bother me because always I runsocks the FreeBSD telnet.

Yeah, this doesn't comple for some reason as of about 1.0r4. The port just
doesn't bother trying to install it - no-one's cared enough to look at why
it's broken and how to fix it.

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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-11 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Fri, 12-Feb-1999 at 00:04:08 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
 
  Hmm, just finished my 3.1 upgrade, compiled socks and runsocks seems
  to work now. The only thing that doesn't work is compiling the telnet
  included with socks5:
  
  cc -I. -I../../include -I./../../include -O -pipe -DANDRE 
  -D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__  -DHAVE_SETUPTERM  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES 
  -DKLUDGELINEMODE  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES -o telnet authenc.o 
  commands.o main.o network.o ring.o sys_bsd.o telnet.o terminal.o tn3270.o 
  utilities.o -L../../lib -lsocks5   -lcrypt   -lncurses -Llibtelnet -ltelnet
  telnet.o: In function `gettermname':
  telnet.o(.text+0x9f2): undefined reference to `ttytype'
  *** Error code 1 (continuing)
  `all' not remade because of errors.
  
  But this doesn't bother me because always I runsocks the FreeBSD telnet.
 
 Yeah, this doesn't comple for some reason as of about 1.0r4. The port just
 doesn't bother trying to install it - no-one's cared enough to look at why
 it's broken and how to fix it.

It works with 2.2.x. The problem has something to do with ncurses. In 
2.2.x the termcap lib is found by configure. In 3.x, the ncurses is
used, IIRC. With the termcap lib, ttytpe can be resolved; with
ncurses not.

BTW, runsocks works really. I think it was to late at night when I tried
it the first time. Don't know what I did wrong ...

-Andre

 
 Kris
 
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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-10 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Wed, 10-Feb-1999 at 17:01:00 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
 
  2.2.x for a while. (I have problems using runsocks from the socks5
  package, but yet haven't figured out if it's my fault).
 
 runsocks works fine for me in socksifying the stuff I use it for (FTP clients,
 simple TCP apps, etc). What are you having problems with?

Hmm, just finished my 3.1 upgrade, compiled socks and runsocks seems
to work now. The only thing that doesn't work is compiling the telnet
included with socks5:

cc -I. -I../../include -I./../../include -O -pipe -DANDRE 
-D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__  -DHAVE_SETUPTERM  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES 
-DKLUDGELINEMODE  -DSOCKS -DINCLUDE_PROTOTYPES -o telnet authenc.o commands.o 
main.o network.o ring.o sys_bsd.o telnet.o terminal.o tn3270.o utilities.o 
-L../../lib -lsocks5   -lcrypt   -lncurses -Llibtelnet -ltelnet
telnet.o: In function `gettermname':
telnet.o(.text+0x9f2): undefined reference to `ttytype'
*** Error code 1 (continuing)
`all' not remade because of errors.

But this doesn't bother me because always I runsocks the FreeBSD telnet.

Anyway, I will keep on experimenting on my home machine (where it failed
yesterday) and look what happened. Maybe it was just to late in the evening...

Thanks,

-Andre

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Mon, 08-Feb-1999 at 17:44:33 -0700, John Galbraith wrote:
 Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
   Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes:
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today [...]
Actually, John Galbraith j...@ece.arizona.edu has written
a better driver for the National Instrument GPIB cards.  Search
the hardware mailing list for a URL to his latest driver.  It
is reported to be superior to the driver in src/sys.
   
   Then why haven't we imported it yet? send-pr that baby and drop me a
   note, and I'll look into it.
   
 
 The last version I posted can be found at www.ece.arizona.edu:/~john.
 I have been using it quite extensively for the last few months on a
 2.2.6 machine.  Mostly it has been small transfers, so I haven't been
 using it at heavy load.  It appears to be quite stable under those
 conditions.
 
 I have tested it on another 3.0 machine, but I haven't been using it
 for real work.
 
 I made some extensive changes in order to support catching SRQ's using
 the poll() mechanism.  I almost have it, but there was one thing that
 I couldn't get to work, so I haven't posted it yet.  The version on
 the web page is the one I am actually using, along with a bunch of
 documentation. 

I would greatly appreciate to see this thing go into the tree. I
still have to build a measurement system in our lab (you remeber,
John :-)) and people there are talking about linux already :-(.

Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible,
since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible
for me to use it on production machines.

Thanks a lot,

-Andre

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
 
 I would greatly appreciate to see this thing go into the tree. I
 still have to build a measurement system in our lab (you remeber,
 John :-)) and people there are talking about linux already :-(.

 Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible,
 since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible
 for me to use it on production machines.

What crippiling disability prevents you from adding the driver yourself?

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Andre Albsmeier andre.albsme...@mchp.siemens.de writes:
 Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible,
 since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible
 for me to use it on production machines.

No, 2.2 is dead now exept for bug fixes.

Anyway, you're a committer - who's stopping you?

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com writes:
  Andre Albsmeier andre.albsme...@mchp.siemens.de writes:
   Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible,
   since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible
   for me to use it on production machines.
  No, 2.2 is dead now exept for bug fixes. 
  Anyway, you're a committer - who's stopping you?
 Actually, I would.  I would prefer to see 2.2.x left to die
 in peace.  The vinum import to that branch already has me on
 edge enough as it is.

I meant who's stopping you from committing the driver, not who's
stopping you from committing the driver to 2.2. I too think 2.2
should be left to die in peace.

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Actually, I would.  I would prefer to see 2.2.x left to die
in peace.  The vinum import to that branch already has me on
edge enough as it is.

- Jordan

 Andre Albsmeier andre.albsme...@mchp.siemens.de writes:
  Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible,
  since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible
  for me to use it on production machines.
 
 No, 2.2 is dead now exept for bug fixes.
 
 Anyway, you're a committer - who's stopping you?
 
 DES
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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread John Galbraith
  I meant who's stopping you from committing the driver, not who's
  stopping you from committing the driver to 2.2. I too think 2.2
  should be left to die in peace.

Well, before it is committed I would like to see one of you FreeBSD
wizards to check it over for a half hour first.  My experience with
FreeBSD is one of rock-solid performance.  I would hate to upset that
impression for somebody else with this particular chunk of code.  I
wrote this driver to the best of my abilities, and I think it is good, 
but I don't spend every weekend with the FreeBSD source code like some 
of you guys do.

I can say with 100% certainty that my driver works much faster, more
reliably, and with more features than the current gp driver
distributed with FreeBSD for _me_.  This will probably be true for
most other people as well.  However, that doesn't mean that this code
is the end all and shouldn't be committed without being checked over
by one of you FreeBSD-god types.  Maybe this is just my own anxiety
over my FreeBSD-contributer virgin status, but it seems wise.

Should I send it in with this send-pr command myself, or should I
let one of you guys do it?

John

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
 Should I send it in with this send-pr command myself, or should I

Please, thanks!

- Jordan

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 09-Feb-1999 at 14:04:55 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
  
  I would greatly appreciate to see this thing go into the tree. I
  still have to build a measurement system in our lab (you remeber,
  John :-)) and people there are talking about linux already :-(.
 
  Don't shoot me, but I would like to see it in 2.2.x if possible,
  since 3.x-STABLE still has some problems which makes it impossible
  for me to use it on production machines.
 
 What crippiling disability prevents you from adding the driver yourself?

Me? Nothing :-) But it just was an idea. If it isn't used, it won't
hurt anyone. And my people here won't have to patch 2.2.x manually.
They don't need an official release, they already use ctm to update
their stuff.

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-09 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 09-Feb-1999 at 17:00:15 -0700, John Galbraith wrote:
   I meant who's stopping you from committing the driver, not who's
   stopping you from committing the driver to 2.2. I too think 2.2
   should be left to die in peace.
 
 Well, before it is committed I would like to see one of you FreeBSD
 wizards to check it over for a half hour first.  My experience with
 FreeBSD is one of rock-solid performance.  I would hate to upset that
 impression for somebody else with this particular chunk of code.  I
 wrote this driver to the best of my abilities, and I think it is good, 
 but I don't spend every weekend with the FreeBSD source code like some 
 of you guys do.
 
 I can say with 100% certainty that my driver works much faster, more
 reliably, and with more features than the current gp driver
 distributed with FreeBSD for _me_.  This will probably be true for
 most other people as well.  However, that doesn't mean that this code
 is the end all and shouldn't be committed without being checked over
 by one of you FreeBSD-god types.  Maybe this is just my own anxiety
 over my FreeBSD-contributer virgin status, but it seems wise.

Ok, I see, I won't have luck with my wish for 2.2.x :-) However,
if there are enhancements or changes being made in order to bring
it into the 3.x or 4.x tree, please make a short note if these
changes are incompatible with 2.2.x. As I said before, I still
can't use 3.x on a lot of machines here so I have to stick with
2.2.x for a while. (I have problems using runsocks from the socks5
package, but yet haven't figured out if it's my fault).

Thanks a lot,

-Andre

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runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote:

 2.2.x for a while. (I have problems using runsocks from the socks5
 package, but yet haven't figured out if it's my fault).

runsocks works fine for me in socksifying the stuff I use it for (FTP clients,
simple TCP apps, etc). What are you having problems with?

Kris

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Re: runsocks (Was Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?)

1999-02-09 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Wed, 10-Feb-1999 at 17:01:00 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
 
  2.2.x for a while. (I have problems using runsocks from the socks5
  package, but yet haven't figured out if it's my fault).
 
 runsocks works fine for me in socksifying the stuff I use it for (FTP clients,
 simple TCP apps, etc). What are you having problems with?

interesting, very interesting :-) Please wait a little, I am about to 
set up a machine here at work with 3.x. I only did it at home before
and I compiled socks5 and tried runsocks a got some problems.
When I am ready here, I can tell you more.

Thanks for your help,

-Andre
 
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gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for
the National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board, according to
LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like,
nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or
even know what it is? Does the driver actually work? Is there a good
reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just bobbit it?

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Smith
 I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for
 the National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board, according to
 LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like,
 nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or
 even know what it is? Does the driver actually work? Is there a good
 reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just bobbit it?

Yes, Yes, Yes, not yet, as the replacement's not ready.

John Galbraith j...@ece.arizona.edu was working on a replacement; I 
haven't heard from him for a while now, but I know he had some very 
happy beta-testers in the field.

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Brian Handy
I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for
the National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board, according to
LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like,
nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or
even know what it is? 

I don't have one, but I know what these are.  It's an interface for
talking to lab equipment like voltmeters, scanners, all sort of stuff.
All this stuff of course has to have a GPIB interface as well, but it
gets used a lot by those types of people.  If I worked in a lab, I'd
almost assuredly be using the driver.  No idea if it works.

Is there a good reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just
bobbit it?

It kills me to watch this go, but the surest way to bring a maintainer out
of the woodwork is to kill it.  :-)  If I still used this stuff, I think
this would be a *great* project to call my own.  Deep sigh.  But it's all
in the CVS tree, so if someone pops up, hey the stuff is still there for
the resurrection.


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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Steve Kargl
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for
 the National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board, according to
 LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like,
 nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or
 even know what it is? Does the driver actually work? Is there a good
 reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just bobbit it?
 

Actually, John Galbraith j...@ece.arizona.edu has written
a better driver for the National Instrument GPIB cards.  Search
the hardware mailing list for a URL to his latest driver.  It
is reported to be superior to the driver in src/sys.

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes:
 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
  I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today [...]
 Actually, John Galbraith j...@ece.arizona.edu has written
 a better driver for the National Instrument GPIB cards.  Search
 the hardware mailing list for a URL to his latest driver.  It
 is reported to be superior to the driver in src/sys.

Then why haven't we imported it yet? send-pr that baby and drop me a
note, and I'll look into it.

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Judging by the traffic on it over the last year it's in use widely.


On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Brian Handy wrote:

 I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for
 the National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board, according to
 LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like,
 nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or
 even know what it is? 
 
 I don't have one, but I know what these are.  It's an interface for
 talking to lab equipment like voltmeters, scanners, all sort of stuff.
 All this stuff of course has to have a GPIB interface as well, but it
 gets used a lot by those types of people.  If I worked in a lab, I'd
 almost assuredly be using the driver.  No idea if it works.
 
 Is there a good reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just
 bobbit it?
 
 It kills me to watch this go, but the surest way to bring a maintainer out
 of the woodwork is to kill it.  :-)  If I still used this stuff, I think
 this would be a *great* project to call my own.  Deep sigh.  But it's all
 in the CVS tree, so if someone pops up, hey the stuff is still there for
 the resurrection.
 
 
 Brian
 
 
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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Steve Kargl
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes:
  Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
   I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today [...]
  Actually, John Galbraith j...@ece.arizona.edu has written
  a better driver for the National Instrument GPIB cards.  Search
  the hardware mailing list for a URL to his latest driver.  It
  is reported to be superior to the driver in src/sys.
 
 Then why haven't we imported it yet? send-pr that baby and drop me a
 note, and I'll look into it.
 

I may have been one of the few people testing for John of -current
(pre 3.0-RELEASE), but the machine I was using has developed CPU,
memory, and disk problems.  I have not had a chance to (stress) the
driver, yet.

-- 
Steve

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Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread John Galbraith
Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
  Steve Kargl s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes:
   Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today [...]
   Actually, John Galbraith j...@ece.arizona.edu has written
   a better driver for the National Instrument GPIB cards.  Search
   the hardware mailing list for a URL to his latest driver.  It
   is reported to be superior to the driver in src/sys.
  
  Then why haven't we imported it yet? send-pr that baby and drop me a
  note, and I'll look into it.
  

The last version I posted can be found at www.ece.arizona.edu:/~john.
I have been using it quite extensively for the last few months on a
2.2.6 machine.  Mostly it has been small transfers, so I haven't been
using it at heavy load.  It appears to be quite stable under those
conditions.

I have tested it on another 3.0 machine, but I haven't been using it
for real work.

I made some extensive changes in order to support catching SRQ's using
the poll() mechanism.  I almost have it, but there was one thing that
I couldn't get to work, so I haven't posted it yet.  The version on
the web page is the one I am actually using, along with a bunch of
documentation. 

John

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University of Arizona,home phone: (520) 327-6074
Los Alamos National Laboratorywork phone: (520) 626-6277
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 products, but keeping the world locked into using his products.
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