Hi, this problem has me pretty much completely stumped. Any ideas or guidance is very welcome.
My hardware:
ICS Electronics model 8065 LAN GPIB gateway (pdf spec sheet)
connected to:
ICS Electronics model 4863B GPIB/IEEE488 Bus interface (pdf spec sheet).
My software version:
Labview Version 2012 SP1
Measurement & Automation Explorer Version 5.4.0f0
NI-VISA Version 5.3
Problem description:
When I try to connect to the VXI-11 interface of the 8065 from NI-MAX, I get the error:
Error opening resource: TCPIP0::172.21.2.160::gpib0,4::INSTR VISA: (Hex 0xBFFF0011) Insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system.
Steps to reproduce:
- In NI Measurement & Automation Explorer -> Devices and Interfaces -> Network Devices, choose "Add Network Device", "VISA TCP/IP Resource"
- Choose "Manual Entry of LAN Instrument"
- Enter IP Address (172.21.2.160) and LAN Device name (gpib0,4)
- Press "Validate" and immediately get the above error.
Troubleshooting steps taken
Pinging the instrument:
Successful
Connecting to instrument with telnet to port 111
Successful
Connecting with 3rd party VXI-11 utility
Using "ICS Electronics VXI-11 Keyboard" Can successfully connect and run "*idn?"
Connecting from another computer:
From a different computer, running LabVIEW 6.1 with MAX v3.1.1, if I follow the exact same steps as above, I can connect and talk to the device (e.g. write "*IDN?\n" to the device and read response with the VISA Basic I/O utility).
Running wireshark
I can't see any packets sent or received to the device's IP address using wireshark, which I find odd.