NI pci-6225

Dear all,

I am trying to get the National Instruments NI pci-6225 (M-series) to 
work using comedi.
I am using comedi-0.7.73 and comedilib-0.7.22 .
The installation seems to be OK, but the data from the AI is always the 
same: 65535
(which is the same number as 'maxdata') when using an old application. 
All channels were floating, except for channel 1, which was connected to 
a function generator.

unfortunately, comedi_calibrate exits with the message:
init_setup() failed for pci-6225


I have tried some of the programs from comedilib/demo:
(changed 'channel' to the proper (connected) channel)
inp     returns -1
cmd    returns proper timing info and 65535 for data-samples
insn    returns proper timing info and ten times -1 as data
tut1     also returns -1
tut2     returns -1   1.31073e+06


I do not see warnings like that the device is not found, or the like.
However, the command 'dmesg' gives:

Available NI device IDs: 0x716c
comedi0: ni_pcimio: pci-6225MITE:0xe0a00000 mapped to e00a6000 
DAQ:0xe0a01000 mapped to e00a8000
mite: version = 1, type =4, mite mode = 1, interface mode = 3
mite: num channels = 8, write post fifo depth = 128, wins = 0, iowins = 2
( irq = 16 )m_series_stc_writew: FIXME: register 0xb does not map 
cleanly on to m-series boards.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x3a in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x4f in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x50 in switch.

m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
ni_mio_common: DMA overwrite of free area
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
m_series-stc_readw: bug! unhandled register=0x7 in switch.
...

and so on


Am I making a mistake somewhere?

thanks in advance for any help!

kind regards,
Tim van Zon

Received on 2007-05-03Z12:04:14