Labview and Linux

Hi!
I'm quite a newbie to labview and have some problems that no search
machine could solve so far
I using Labview 6 on a Linux machine and want to use a NI PCI-MIO-16E-4
card for in- and output. Unfortunately I found out after I installed the
system etc. that LinuxLabview doesn't obviously come with readymade DAQ
support. I found the _drivers_ from comedi.org and managed to install
them, but in the packages were no vi's included.
Has anybody a hint or link how I might access my card (without switching
the whole system to Windows )?
Thanks!
Christoph

In article <[email protected]>, "Christoph Heinrich
Baumann" wrote:
> Has anybody a hint or link how I might access my card (without switching
> the whole system to Windows )?
Hi Chris,
Check out this link:
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak8/wwm/Members/Kempf/comedi_vi/comedi_vi_e.html
It has CIN based VIs. Can't say I've used them. I'm not a big fan of
CINs so I've used function calls to the shared library, comedilib.so.
It's a nice alternative to CINs.
Hope this helps.
-Kevin

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> I am trying to write an application in LabVIEW under Linux that will
> take all my data and dump it into DB2 database. I was going to use the
> SQL Toolkit that National Instruments supply but they dont have a
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>
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