Installing NI-VISA 4.5.0 in OpenSUSE 11.2 fails

[pcr]

I am trying to use a NI USB 6009 so I am installing NI-VISA 4.5.0 as a prerequisite to DAQmx Base. I get the following error:

Warning: nikali post installation failed! /tmp/nikaliPostInstall.log follows:

And farther down:

./uninstall.sh: line 13: .: Makefile.in: file not found
Uninstalling NI-KAL (nikal): done
/bin/rm -rf objects
Updating NI-KAL:
NI-KAL update failed.

/bin/cp nikal.c objects/nikal.c
/bin/cp nikal.h objects/nikal.h
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.2-default/source SUBDIRS=/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2'
  CC   /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects/nikal.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: "init_mm" [/usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects/nikal.ko] undefined!
  CC      /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects/nikal.mod.o
  LD   /usr/local/natinst/nikal/src/objects/nikal.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2'
Installing NI-KAL (nikal): Starting NI-KAL failed!
make: *** [install] Error 1

ERROR: make of nikal kernel module failed, not installing kernel module.
   updateNIDrivers should be called again after fixing the problem.
   Logging failure...
   Include the file /tmp/niSystemReport.out.gz when contacting
   National Instruments for support.

Some details about my system:

uname -r
2.6.31.12-0.2-default

rpm -qa |grep ^ni
niorbi-1.9.0-f0.i386
nivisaserver-4.5.0-f0.i386
nimdnsresponder-1.1.0-f2.i386
nivisa-4.5.0-f0.i386
nirpci-4.0.0-f1.i386
nipalki-2.4.0-f0.i386
nivisak-4.5.0-f0.i386
nivisa-config-4.5.0-f0.i386
nicvirte-8.0-7.i386
nidimi-1.9.2-f0.i386
nispyi-2.6.0-f0.i386
nikali-1.9.0-f0.noarch
nipxirmi-1.6.0-f0.i386
nipali-2.4.0-f0.i386
nivisa-devel-4.5.0-f0.i386

lsmod |grep ni

NOTHING?

I am attaching niSystemReport output.

Thank you very much for any help you can provide. After many hours trying different things I've found in the forums I am totally stuck.

[irwan]

Sorry, this is a known problem. Sadly NI-KAL doesn't work yet on kernel 2.6.31 that comes with OpenSUSE 11.2. You might search for "SUSE 11.2" or "2.6.31" around the forum to see the other threads.

The good news is that we have just gotten it working a couple of weeks ago in our development, so the next release of NI-KAL should install correctly on this distribution.

The bad news is that we're not done yet, so you'll need to wait a bit more for our next release.

I apologize that it is taking so darn long to fix this problem.