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From: Derek Foreman <Derek.Foreman_at_nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> · Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:04:08 -0600 (CST)

That's a pretty "dumb" board.

I don't think you get to use commands.  You just get the 
comedi_dio_* functions.

The hardware supports a couple of more interesting modes (strobed I/O), 
but afaict comedi doesn't support them.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Stephanie Ann Wissel wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> I've been trying to configure my PCI-NI-96 board using comedi 0.70.  After a 
> little initial trouble with compilation, I'm happy to say that communication 
> with my PCI board is going well with one exception.
>
> After running comedi_config:
>
> comedi_config /dev/comedi0 pci_nidio
>
> (I omit the bus/slot numbers because it's unnecessary for the pci drivers). 
> comedi_config reports no errors, but board_info reports that commands are not 
> supported for all 4 of my subdevices.  I assume that this has something to do 
> with the configuration process, but I can't quite figure it out.
>
> In another thread (see pci 6025E and 8255 
> support,https://cvs.comedi.org/pipermail/comedi/2003-September/005019.html ), 
> it was recommened
> that one should edit the Makefile in comedi/drivers to enable the 8255 chip 
> such that the line:
>
> DEFS= -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>
> is changed to
>
> DEFS= -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DCONFIG_COMEDI_8255=1
>
> I tried this and recompiled comedi, but there has been no change.
>
> What am I missing?  Listed below is the output from board_info and lsmod:
>
> Thanks,
> Steph
>
> ./boardinfo:
> overall info:
>  version code: 0x000746
>  driver name: ni_pcidio
>  board name: pci-dio-96
>  number of subdevices: 4
> subdevice 0:
>  type: 5 (digital I/O)
>  number of channels: 24
>  max data value: 1
>  ranges:
>    all chans: [0,5]
>  command:
>    not supported
> subdevice 1:
>  type: 5 (digital I/O)
>  number of channels: 24
>  max data value: 1
>  ranges:
>    all chans: [0,5]
>  command:
>    not supported
> subdevice 2:
>  type: 5 (digital I/O)
>  number of channels: 24
>  max data value: 1
>  ranges:
>    all chans: [0,5]
>  command:
>    not supported
> subdevice 3:
>  type: 5 (digital I/O)
>  number of channels: 24
>  max data value: 1
>  ranges:
>    all chans: [0,5]
>  command:
>    not supported
>
> lsmod:
> ni_pcidio              12032  1
> mite                   12164  1 ni_pcidio
> 8255                    8704  1 ni_pcidio
> comedi                 31896  5 ni_pcidio,8255
>
>
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