help on NI PCI-1422

Hi,
a friend of mine got a National Instruments PCI-1422 card to be used as
an interface to acquire data from a high speed camera.

The supplied camera software is not what one's expecting for such a product
so he asked me to try using linux to accomplish the task.

According to Google 'comedi' is the way to go, while National Instruments
recommends it on their "linux support" page!

So I've got comedi-0.7.68 and installed it on a Mandrake-9.2 system (kernel
2.4.22), along with comedilib-0.7.21, as suggested in the README.

According to the `Documentation/comedi/drivers.txt' file this specific card
does not seem to be  supported but I've tried anyway to load a comedi driver
(the `ni_pcimio' one looked as a good 1st try) and got some more results
to attach to this email (other than the `lspci' command, listing the card
with a correct name).

Being myself a data-acquisition-newbie I was wondering if this excellent
piece of software could be used at all with such a card (maybe it's a differend
kind of hardware); any help or suggestion would be appreciated as the card
is a demo unit and it should be returned soon if no positive results could
be accomplished; also I have some C and drivers skills to help in the task.


Kind regards,
 >>> Nicola Farina


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