I have a new Mac on which I'm trying to install the NI instrumentation drivers (both VISA and GPIB), and things aren't working so some advice would be appreciated. I downloaded the most recent versions of both (14.0 for VISA and 3.0.1 for GPIB), ran the installers (restarting between the two installs), and then tried to run the VISA configuration utility and the GPIB configuration utility to check that the drivers were ok (at this point, no measurement hardware is attached to the machine; ultimately, the hardware will be a USB->GPIB adapter and a USB->RS-232 adapter).
Both configuration utilities crashed on running. The GPIB config got as far as putting up its window and then crashed a couple of seconds later; NI-VISA never even managed to finish displaying its splash screen.
Looking at the crash reports, the crashes appear to be in the low-level NI-PAL driver. The report says
/Library/Frameworks/nipalu.framework/Versions/1/nipalu
abort() called
Poking around the list of files mentioned in the NI-PAL uninstall guide, it appears that the kernel extension nipalk.kekt wasn't actually installed properly (it is missing from both /Library/Extensions and /System/Library/Extensions, and according to the uninstall file, it should be present in both. I tried copying the kext over from a machine which does have a functioning VISA/GPIB install, but OSX refused to load it as it wasn't actually installed.
My tentative plan right now is to follow the uninstall instructions for VISA, GPIB, and NI-PAL and then try rerunning the installers, but I'm afraid that I'll end up in the same place. Is there some special trick or something needed to get these drivers to install properly (i.e. should things be installed in a specific order, should I try installing VISA 5.4 and then do an upgrade install to 14, try sacrificing a goat, stuff like that)?
Hardware is a Mac Mini running OSX 10.9.5.
Thanks for any help.