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Re: [time-nuts] Inexpensive Alternative to a 5120A

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Hal Murray
Fri, Oct 7, 2016 7:09 PM

I happen to use the ethernet one, but I would imagine the USB one also
works fine. I've had more trouble with non-standard USB devices (e.g.  not a
disk drive, keyboard, mouse, or serial port) on Linux than on  Windows or
Mac OSX - but I don't know what the GPIB-USB looks like.  Others on the list
have probably used it.

I use the USB version from Linux.  It works fine.

There is one trick.  It expects hardware handshaking which needs the right
magic parameters to open or an ioctl type step to set them.  You can fake
that with short delays in the right places.  Or use some wrapper package that
does it for you.

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jimlux@earthlink.net said: > I happen to use the ethernet one, but I would imagine the USB one also > works fine. I've had more trouble with non-standard USB devices (e.g. not a > disk drive, keyboard, mouse, or serial port) on Linux than on Windows or > Mac OSX - but I don't know what the GPIB-USB looks like. Others on the list > have probably used it. I use the USB version from Linux. It works fine. There is one trick. It expects hardware handshaking which needs the right magic parameters to open or an ioctl type step to set them. You can fake that with short delays in the right places. Or use some wrapper package that does it for you. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.