current status of Addi-Data drivers?

Hi there,

I am in the planing state of an Linux based autonomous Data aquisition and
evaluation System.

For several reasons I intended to go with a DAQ Card from ADDI-Data, the
APCI-3120 in particular.

One particular reason is the fact, that they advertise and provide a comedi
driver on their Website. The otehr most important one is the fact, that
ADDI-Data seems to be a somewhat small company which is located just a few
Kilometers down the road from the place I live and work over here in
germany :)

Unfortunately there driver seems to be pretty old (based on comedi
comedi-0.7.58) and did not even compile on my Desktop Linux Box
(Debian Sarge System based on Kernel 2.6.x).

Therefore I downloaded the current Comedi-tarball which did not even provide
any Support for DAQ Cards from ADDI-Data.

I figured out, that the current cvs-Version does provide the drives, but
does not build them (at least by default).

Any comments on this?

Which decent PCI based Card could you recommend instead of the APCI-3120?

Today many Companies provide Linux drivers mostly with stange APIs
compatible to a particular proprietary Windows API of the particular
company. IN addition they often tend to attach proprietary libraries which
is even worse.

I once tried to use a board from http://www.ueidaq.com/ which
provided a very stange non Unix-like Interface with some asynchronous
signaling of Data availability via sigio.

Such a thing is definitely not the way I intend to go.

Sven

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Received on 2005-02-09Z18:12:34