- From: Adrian T Sindile <asindile_at_cisunix.unh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:31:35 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Ian (all), Thank you for replying - are there any USB temperature loggers on the market that comedi has drivers for? Thanks again, Adrian Sindile On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Ian Abbott wrote: > On 31/07/2006 18:50, Adrian T Sindile wrote: >> Our group at UNH bought the following USB-based board from Measurement >> Computing for reading thermocouples: >> >> http://www.measurementcomputing.com/cbicatalog/cbiproduct_new.asp?dept_id=480&pf_id=1692&mscssid=H04KX4H5EGTM9LUM79A00EFEQ36J8NPF >> Is there a driver available to use with this board? I have installed and >> compiled comedi and I was able to test it using the comedi_test (no >> hardware) driver: >> >> # modprobe comedi_test >> # comedi_config /dev/comedi0 comedi_test >> >> This is the first time I would use comedi with hardware, so I would >> appreciate step-by-step instructions on how to get this board to work with >> Linux and comedi (I would really like to move away from Windows and Labview >> which have been used in our group so far)... > > There is no Comedi driver for that board or any other Measurement Computing > USB devices, so you'll have to find someone to write said driver if you want > to use it with comedi. This is assuming you can extract the necessary > programming details for the device from Measurement Computing's technical > department, or failing that, can reverse engineer the information by sniffing > the USB bus on Windows. > > There are a few USB device drivers in Comedi that may be studying. The book > "Linux Device Drivers" third edition, published by O'Reilly also has > information on writing USB drivers (it can be found online, but is more > convenient in paper form!). For prototyping and experimentation before > writing the real driver, it may be worth experimenting with the device in > user-space via libusb. > >
Received on 2006-08-01Z14:31:35