GPIB-ENET/100 no recognized after upgrading

[etrull1977]

Previous System Setup:

• Windows 7 SP1 Professional
• GPIB-ENET/100
• LabVIEW Run-Time 2012 SP1 f5
• LabWindows/CVI Run-Time 2013
• Measurement & Automations Explorer 5.5
• NI I/O Trace 3.1.1
• NI PXI Platform Services 3.2.3
• NI System Configuration 5.5
• NI-488.2 3.1.2
• NI-PAL 15.0
• NI-USI 2.0
• NI-VISA 15.0
• NI-VISA Runtime 15.0

Current System Setup:

• Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
• All NI Software is the Newest Version

My current system will not recognize my GPIB-ENET/100. When I use the GPIB Ethernet Wizard to add the ENET/100, it only gives me the option to install the ENET/1000. How do I configure my new system to use the ENET/100?

[pallen]

The following chart may help determine compatibility. 

NI-488.2 Supported Versions for GPIB Devices and Modules

It does appear that the ENET/100 is not compatible with the very latest drivers.  You may need to roll back NI-488.2 to Ver. 17.6

[etrull1977]

I don't know how to roll back the software.

[jamiva]

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@etrull1977 wrote:

I don't know how to roll back the software.

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This also happened to me some time ago. The latest version of NI-488.2 does not support the GPIB-ENET/100. As pallen said, you need to roll back NI-488.2 to Version 17.6. You ONLY have to roll back NI-488.2, nothing else. Can't remember exactly how I did it , but here's how I think I did it:

Open NI Package manager and select the "INSTALLED" tab
Check the box for "Products Only"
Select NI-488.2 then click "REMOVE"

After removing NI-488.2, download the older version of NI-488.2 from the NI website. Make sure you choose Version 17.6

https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-488-2.html#305442

After downloading the driver, double click "setup.exe" to install it.

[cy...]

you may have to look at the RTE compatibility with the 488.2 and your program too... unless you have the source files to recompile to the latest version

[rolfk]

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@cy... wrote:

you may have to look at the RTE compatibility with the 488.2 and your program too... unless you have the source files to recompile to the latest version

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That's unlikely a problem. NI-488.2 driver API has been absolutely stable for over 20 years. The underlaying drivers have been updated to address new hardware and OS versions but the DLL interface to applications has been as stable as you can get. Stone is more flexible in that respect .

[cy...]

just speaking from a previous case when my colleague tried to reinstall a program built around 2013/4 and uses GPIB ENET/100. I recalled the program required very specific version of 488.2 17.6 and RTE 2013/4. and the source code is nowhere to be found, otherwise, could have recompiled it to the versions available in those DVDs my colleague have...

[rolfk]

The RTE is logical. Before 2017 the major version hadto match exactly the LabVIEW version the exe was created in. Bug fix levels were allowed to differ but it could possibly lead to strange artefacts on frontpanels sometimes. 
The NI-488.2 driver has to support the OS you are on and the GPIB interface you use, so if you want to run on Windows 10 you need a recent version. But the version of NI-488.2 (and Ni-VISA) in respect to the LabVIEW version is fairly/highly uncritical.

[Phil83]

cannot understand why ETH/GPIB-100 support has been removed from latest 488.2 driver releases. no reasons to upgrade to eth/gpib-1000 and now no bug fixes from newer versions can be used, very annoying.