Instrument Communication with GPIB through LabVIEW NXG

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to LabVIEW in general, so please be patient. 

I have an Agilent 34401A DMM, which I have the drivers for and have even made a couple simple VI's for, and an Agilent 33522A function generator. I downloaded the drivers for the function generator, but no new drivers appeared in the Hardware Interfaces tab. Package Manager shows that I installed the drivers, but I'm all "sad pandas."

Top is the Hardware interface, and the bottom is NI Package Manager

The good news is I can communicate with both the function generator and the DMM with the VISA test panel in NI Max, and I can see all my "installed" devices in System Designer, so I know LabVIEW can see them - happy dance. However, I have four more very old power supplies, and two of them don't appear to have drivers. All of them communicate over GPIB.

I assumed that communication was straight forward. So I tried the following and failed, but it looks pretty. My goal was just to take GPIB code that would produce a sine wave on output 1 of the function generator. 

However, this didn't work, I got the following error. I did a google search on said error and that wasn't very helpful.The error code is -1073807195, and this isn't in the range of the VISA code I found, so not helpful.


 

If I can just communicate with my equipment with basic GPIB commands through LabVIEW I will be one happy dude.

Thanks for your time.

~Triston