Using USB 6009 on Ubuntu 12.04

So I've read many forums on this and it seems to be a common issue, which no one has figured out (from what I've read so far). I need to have the USB 6009 working on Ubuntu 12.04 for some field experiments and I don't have alternatives / options.
I decided to go ahead and try installing the drives. I found this page (http://maztories.blogspot.sg/2013/03/ni-usb-6008-card-can-be-installed-in.html) which I thought explained the steps in a simple way. I was able to install the latest versions of NI-KAL and NI-VISA with the steps mentioned. But I had problems installing NI-DAQmx Base.
I reached this point (alien -k --scripts *.rpm) where I got the error, the rpm packages are 32-bit (i386) and cannot be extracted on a 64-bit machine. I started looking at alternative ways to convert the RPM files to DEB.
I tried the steps below mentioned in this link (http://askubuntu.com/questions/215624/alien-cannot-built-package-for-architecture-ubuntu-amd64) but was stuck again at "...labview2010 / 2011 / 2012..." RPM files, which didn't have an "install" folder.
alien --to-tgz --scripts file.i386.rpm
mkdir unpack
cd unpack
tar -xpzf ../file.tgz
mv install ..
cp -rv * /
cd ../install
./doinst.sh
I continued looking for alternatives and found this link
and I followed the steps below.
The process is quite easy, in short you need to modify the control file and that's it.
sudo alien -g package-name.rpm
cd package-dir/
sudo vi debian/control
Now change the architecture (i386 in my case) to be the one you need. For example, I added the amd64 archicture and this is how the line ended up:
Architecture: i386, amd64
Last step:
sudo debian/rules binary
This will produce the .deb file.
I was able to create the DEB files successfully. I tried the next step of installing DEB file (dpkg -i *.deb) and it worked! I followed the remaining steps until ./updateNIDrivers and everything worked fine.
After this, I updated the firmware on DAQ to that of DAQmx base since I had used it on windows machine with DAQmx earlier. I followed the steps in these links:
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-12153
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/91CBCFE9E171C845862572CF0077D8F9?OpenDocument
I went back to Linux and tried connecting the USB DAQ. The LED light on the DAQ blinks. I tried the lsusb command and I get the following:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5800 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 3923:717b National Instruments Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:1814 Ricoh Co., Ltd HD Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
I see National Instruments Corp. as one device which means the DAQ is being recognized. But when I type lsdaq I get the following:
/usr/local/natinst/nidaqmxbase/bin$ lsdaq
Detecting National Instruments DAQ Devices
Found the following DAQ Devices:
/usr/local/bin/lsdaq: line 7: /etc/natinst/nidaqmxbase/bin/daqmxbase_listdevices: No such file or directory
I'm not sure what to do after this point. Since the error says No such file or directory, I don't know if the NI DAQmx base installed properly. Are the steps that I followed correct? Is converting RPM to DEB in the way I mentioned the right way?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I really need to get this working.
Thanks!

Hello all,
I am also having a problem getting this working.
It was installed on an old i386 machine with Redhat, but I am now trying to move it to a new amd64 machine with Ubuntu as the old PC died.
I have used alien -g name.rpm and /debian/rules library to create the deb files. dpkg -i installed them ok.
When I try to compile any code that has #INCLUDE "NIDAQmxBase.h" it gives a fatal error : No such file or directory.
I added the location of this file /usr/local/natinst/nidaqmxbase/include/ to the path but still got the same error when I run gcc.
I created a Makefile and added includes=I/usr/local/natinst/nidaqmxbase/include/
This has got me past the missing NIDAQmxBase.h problem but now it cannot find lnidamxbase lnidaqmxbaselv and llvrtdark
I tried adding nilibs=-lnidamxbase -lnidaqmxbaselv -llvrtdark to the makefile with out any luck.
I do not know much about LD so I am not sure if I still have an issue there.
I also do not have the lsdaq command in the bin directory so I may not have successfully installed the ni software packages.
Has anyone managed to solve the USB6009 on a 64 bit Debian base at all?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit.
Hopefully between us all we can crack this for debian based machines.
s.vignesh wrote:
I continued looking for alternatives and found this link
and I followed the steps below.
The process is quite easy, in short you need to modify the control file and that's it.
sudo alien -g package-name.rpm
cd package-dir/
sudo vi debian/control
s.vignesh, your link to these steps is not showing up. Can you repost it. I am not sure what other steps you did after the dpkg -i
Regards,
Phil

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