Chapter 3
Software Installation and Configuration
© National Instruments Corp.
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AT-GPIB/NI-488M/AT&T UNIX
The synopsis of the command is as follows:
ibconf [
file ]
where
file
can be any UNIX file with the NI-488M driver installed. The
default UNIX kernel file is /
unix
.
A. Run ibconf
To create the device nodes and/or change the GPIB parameters, simply
enter
ibconf
This is equivalent to
ibconf /unix
.
If you have given your UNIX kernel file a name other than
/unix
, use the
file option to give the whole pathname of the UNIX kernel. For example, if
the kernel name is
/unix.new
, enter the following command:
ibconf /unix.new
B. Exit ibconf
Save the current configuration by typing
y
before exiting
ibconf
. Even if
you have not made any changes to the configuration settings, you should
still type a
y
to have
ibconf
create the special device files (for example,
gpib0
,
gpib1
,
dev1
,
dev2
, . . .) in the
/dev
directory.
This completes the software installation and configuration procedures.
If you did not make any changes to the configuration settings or only
renamed devices, you do not have to restart the system. However, if you
made any changes to the configuration settings, restart the system to run on
the new kernel by entering the following commands:
cd /
shutdown -y -g0 -i6