help w/ simple GPIB prog.

[Dietmar Schwertberger]

In article <1128394388.461568.110390 at g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, whoopsi
<URL:mailto:allen.cross at gmail.com> wrote:
>    I thought I would simply be able to open a port, and send SCPI
> commands to configure and aquire values. But when I tried to run GPIB
> .py files from gpib-device-0.0.4 I got an error: "symbol 'ibsta' not
> found". Doing some searching I found that ibsta was refering to a
> library for GPIB (I'm assuming some .dll from a driver) and wrapping
> them???. But these instruments as far as I know don't need drivers.
Sounds like it's missing the driver for the GPIB board.
What kind of GPIB card is it? The driver should be available from the web
site of the manufacturer.


Regards,

Dietmar