NI GPIB vintage driver for Windows98SE - Page 1
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author: chronos42
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2020, 05:23:10 pm
content: Hi,NI has removed all the vintage driver from the their homepage. I can't find any link for downloading Windows 98SE drivers for NI GPIB ISA cards in the net. Any hints where I can find this driver package?Thanks...

author: Tony_G
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2020, 05:53:57 pm
content: Looks like you have to ask NI Support -https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019QOfSAM&l=en-USTonyG

author: joeqsmith
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2020, 09:50:12 pm
content: Quote from: chronos42 on May 08, 2020, 05:23:10 pmGuessing I would have it archived. What is the cards part number and I will check to see.

author: chronos42
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2020, 05:23:06 am
content: Quote from: joeqsmith on May 08, 2020, 09:50:12 pmThank you Joe. Meanwhile a forum member helped me to get the driver package.And I learned my lesson (again): Save every Software you have downloaded in your own archive, even when the company offered all their released software on their site since decades without any restrictions. Never trust that this will last for ever!

author: joeqsmith
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2020, 03:54:37 pm
content: I've not checked but they used to have an FTP site. You may find some of these old versions there if it's still active.Glad you were able to sort it out.

author: keystone
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2020, 10:12:14 pm
content: Quote from: chronos42 on May 08, 2020, 05:23:10 pmI am also looking for a driver for a NI PCI GPIB card for windows XP service Pack 3 and/or windows 7. The card assembly number is 182820C-01. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

author: Mp3
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2020, 10:39:27 pm
content: Often times when i run into an issue like this,archive.org can save your life. Paste the url in the wayback machine.

author: jjoonathan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2020, 12:14:12 am
content: This thread is a reminder to hug your standardized VXI11 ethernet<->gpib adapter today if you haven't already.No drivers = best drivers.

author: CaptDon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2020, 07:06:39 pm
content: Are you able to post that driver here, or a link to it? I may even be tryingto use my N.I. 8-bit ISA Slot GPIB card under DOS to transfer scripts toscopes and so forth.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 02:14:05 am
content: I was the one who sent a link to Chronos 42ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/gpib/NI in the past disabled some web sites / ftp because of too much traffic / buzz around it, to @ all download what you need and archive them or host them somewhere safe like ko4bb ...while it last ?

author: gslick
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 02:22:13 am
content: Quote from: jjoonathan on May 10, 2020, 12:14:12 amWhat software would you recommend to use with an HP E2050A, which is supposed to be a VXI-11 gateway?

author: jjoonathan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 03:55:52 am
content: python-vxi11.You can also use pyvisa and pyvisa-py (the latter is an all-python driver, in the sense that NI-VISA or Agilent VISA would be a driver, for pyvisa).

author: intmpe
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 07:06:55 am
content: Quote from: chronos42 on May 09, 2020, 05:23:06 amI know the person running that part of the business - a dangerous waste of space. NI is a company in trouble and will probably be a target at some point in the next few years. Essentially they have a complex test platform that fewer and fewer people see the need to a) pay for and b) waste their time constantly paying for people to fix it.Labview will be interesting. Its a valuable asset. What happens to it eventually will be interesting to see.

author: madao
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2020, 09:26:44 am
content: Quote from: keystone on May 09, 2020, 10:12:14 pmPCII/IIA and Win XP/7 driver... forgone it. I have trouble with this card an Win98se & IEEE488.2 1.7.Of coruse, PCII/IIA is cloned by many company (upD7210 based card) and NI didn't feel like support this card. Only very old NI488.2 support him.*url removed, 48h is over*Both link have only 48h lifetime. Please, save it. I got 2.3 from a people. Version 2.2 was downloaded by NI, before NI has banned it.Greetingsmatt

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2020, 06:21:02 am
content: Quote from: jjoonathan on May 10, 2020, 12:14:12 amYeah learned that the hard way.I scored a cheep NI GPIB to ethernet converter box and later on figured out that its essentially impossible to make it work on a modern system. The Base10 ethernet port did work with my network but the way it gets an IP is weird and didn't work and the only drivers i could find for it turned out to be for win 98. So its a paperweight now.Later on went and got a more modern Agilent GPIB to Ethernet converter box. That thing got its IP from DHCP and had its configuration in a webpage it hosts. I never want to sell that thing, especially with how rare they are for a reasonable price.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2020, 10:37:27 am
content: Thats why sometime we have to keep old pc's with win 95 / win 98 ....For me i had to build Dos+win95, Dos+win98 and Xp virtuals machines worked 95% most of the times ... now the problems is finding theses pesky drivers we need for the "old stuff"Dumped recently an 486 dx2 pc, just served until the end of 2019managed to get a more recent software at a mere 12K $$$ upgrade loll

author: anewangelfades
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 20, 2022, 07:54:48 pm
content: Hello,sorry for reviving this old topic,but I have a ISA PCII/IIA GPIB interface from National Instruments as well...From what I understand Windows ME is the latest os that can be used, is this correct?Can you please send the drivers to me, too?I would appreciate it very much.Thank you very much in advance

author: gslick
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2022, 01:21:20 am
content: Quote from: anewangelfades on April 20, 2022, 07:54:48 pmAccording to the NI-488.2 Version 1.70 ReadMe.txt, it only supports the GPIB-PCIIA on Windows Me/98/95Code:National Instruments NI-488.2 for Windows.Version 1.70.Copyright 2000 National Instruments Corporation.All Rights Reserved.NI-488.2 for Windows, Version 1.70, supports the following hardware:Windows Me/98/95 Windows NT Windows 2000================ ========== ============AT-GPIB/TNT Yes Yes YesAT-GPIB/TNT (PnP) Yes Yes YesAT-GPIB/TNT+ Yes Yes YesGPIB-1394 Win98 and WinMe No NoGPIB-ENET Yes No NoGPIB-ENET/100 Yes No NoGPIB-PCII Yes No NoGPIB-PCIIA Yes No NoGPIB-USB Yes No NoNEC-GPIB/TNT Yes No NoNEC-GPIB/TNT (PnP) Yes No NoPC/104-GPIB Yes Yes YesPCI-8212 Yes Yes YesPCI-GPIB Yes Yes YesPCI-GPIB+ No Yes YesPCMCIA-GPIB Yes Yes YesPCMCIA-GPIB+ Yes No YesPMC-GPIB Yes Yes YesPXI-8156 Yes Yes YesPXI-GPIB Yes Yes YesVXI/VMEpc-650 Yes Yes YesVXIpc-745 Yes Yes YesVXIpc-850 Yes Yes YesVXIpc-860 Yes Yes YesVXIpc-870 Yes Yes YesYou can download an ISO image of the NI-488.2 Version 1.70 installation CD here:https://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-1.7.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-1.7.0/NI-488.2_1.7.0.iso

author: anewangelfades
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 21, 2022, 05:44:46 am
content: Thank you very much.I found that one, and 2.2 as well (from NI ftp), but it seems it doesn't support ISA boards.From what I understand from the documentation atftp://ftp.ni.com/support/gpib/ni488220/, version 2.0 is the last one supporting ISA boards, am I right?Does anyone have the ISO?Thank you again.

author: gslick
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2022, 06:04:20 am
content: If you really need to use an ISA bus GPIB controller, according to the NI-488.2 for Windows Version 15.0 Readme, it supports the ISA bus AT-GPIB/TNT (PnP) on Windows XP SP3.I don't know if any newer versions of NI-488.2 still support the ISA bus AT-GPIB/TNT (PnP).NI 488.2 GPIB Driver 15.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-15.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-15.0/NI-488.2_15.0.isoThe readme for NI-488.2 for Windows, Version 2.0 doesn't list support for any ISA bus GPIB controllers.The readme for NI-488.2 for Windows, Version 2.2 says that the support for the ISA bus AT-GPIB/TNT(PnP) is new in that version.

author: gslick
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2022, 05:12:25 pm
content: For anyone looking for a specific old version of NI 488.2 software, someone was helpful enough to upload almost a complete set of old CD ISO images just last month. The only old version that I don't see there currently is version 2.0(I hope that NI doesn't eventually request that these images be removed. I have no idea how often that might happen with images uploaded to archive.org)NI 488.2 GPIB Driver 1.7.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-1.7.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-1.7.0/NI-488.2_1.7.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.1.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.1.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.1.0/NI-488.2_2.1.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.2.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.2.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.2.0/NI-488.2_2.2.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.3.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.3.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.3.0/NI-488.2_2.3.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.4.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.4.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.4.0/NI-488.2_2.4.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.5.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.5.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.5.0/NI-488.2_2.5.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.6.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.6.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.6.0/NI-488.2_2.6.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.7.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.7.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.7.0/NI-488.2_2.7.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.7.1 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.7.1https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.7.1/NI-488.2_2.7.1.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.7.3 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.7.3https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.7.3/NI-488.2_2.7.3.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.8.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.8.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.8.0/NI-488.2_2.8.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 2.8.1 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-2.8.1https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-2.8.1/NI-488.2_2.8.1.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 3.0.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-3.0.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-3.0.0/NI-488.2_3.0.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 3.0.2 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-3.0.2https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-3.0.2/NI-488.2_3.0.2.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 3.1.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-3.1.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-3.1.0/NI-488.2_3.1.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 3.1.1 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-3.1.1https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-3.1.1/NI-488.2_3.1.1.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 3.1.2 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-3.1.2https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-3.1.2/NI-488.2_3.1.2.isoVersion numbers switched to the year number with the 2014 release.NI 488.2 GPIB Driver 14.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-14.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-14.0/NI-488.2_14.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 15.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-15.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-15.0/NI-488.2_15.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 15.5 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-15.5https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-15.5/NI-488.2_15.5.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 16.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-16.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-16.0/NI-488.2_16.0.isoNI 488.2 GPIB Driver 17.0 for Windowshttps://archive.org/details/ni-488.2-17.0https://archive.org/download/ni-488.2-17.0/NI-488.2_17.0.isoAttached is a .ZIP file with the ReadMe files extracted from the above CD images, which provide details on the GPIB interfaces and versions of Windows supported by each NI 488.2 software version.NI-488.2_1.7.0-ReadMe.txtNI-488.2_2.1.0-Readme.txtNI-488.2_2.3.0-Readme.txtNI-488.2_2.2.0-Readme.txtNI-488.2_2.4.0-Readme.txtNI-488.2_2.5.0-Readme.htmlNI-488.2_2.6.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_2.7.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_2.7.1-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_2.7.3-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_2.8.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_2.8.1-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_3.0.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_3.0.2-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_3.1.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_3.1.1-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_3.1.2-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_14.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_15.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_15.5-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_16.0-ReadMe.htmlNI-488.2_17.0-ReadMe.html

author: anewangelfades
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 21, 2022, 08:57:41 pm
content: Quote from: gslick on April 21, 2022, 06:04:20 amThe documentation of the Version 2.0, the only one missing from the Internet Archive, that can be found here:ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/gpib/ni488220/Documentation.zipin the "GPIB Hardware Guide.pdf" file lists the GPIB-PCII/IIA card as supported, exactly the ISA bus card thet we have, that's why I think this is the last version for me. Anyway, I can use version 1.7 if version 2.0 cannot be found.

author: gslick
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2022, 09:09:48 pm
content: This post has a copy of the Readme file for NI-488.2 for Windows, Version 2.0:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/setup-help-with-ni-gpib-usb-a-and-b-on-windows-7/msg4087360/#msg4087360It has no mention of any ISA bus GPIB controller as a supported interface. That information might be more accurate than the "GPIB Hardware Guide.pdf", which might include information on interfaces that are no longer supported.Code:Supported Interfaces--------------------NI-488.2 for Windows, Version 2.0, supports the following hardware onWindows 2000/XP/Me/98. Any special requirements or conditions arestated below the list in the Notes section.GPIB-ENETGPIB-ENET/100GPIB-USB-AGPIB-USB-BPCI-GPIBPCI-8212PMC-GPIBPXI-GPIBPXI-8212Notes:1) Neither the Controller nor Analyzer functionality of thePCI-GPIB+ interface is supported in Version 2.0.2) The GPIB-ENET product is obsolete. The interface is supportedin Version 2.0, but it should not be used for futuredesigns. Use the GPIB-ENET/100 instead.In any case, in a week or so I should have access to a CD of NI-488.2 for Windows, Version 2.0. I will upload an ISO image of that CD when I am able to do so, and then an almost complete set of CD images for old versions of NI-488.2 for Windows should be available.

author: anewangelfades
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 21, 2022, 10:02:07 pm
content: Quote from: gslick on April 21, 2022, 09:09:48 pmI'm looking at the files inftp://ftp.ni.com/support/gpib/archive/and it seems to me that 377119.zip is the version 2.0 that I was looking for...Anyway, a full cd is still missing, I'll look forward for your ISO,thanks again!

author: Raindog
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2022, 01:56:59 am
content: Try going herehttp://download.ni.com/support/gpib/and look around in the "ni488x" folders, you may find what you need there.