Category Archives: Driver

SIS8300-L2 Windows Labview Support

Posted on July 28, 2016 by mki

Fini Jastrow of DESY has developed a SIS8300-L2 VI, which is based on Struck’s single read, single write, DMA read and DMA write Windows Driver calls. It is available to interested parties under the Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL). Screenshots … Continue reading →

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Windows (and LabVIEW) Support for SIS8300-x, SIS8325 and SIS8800 MTCA.4 cards

Posted on June 16, 2016 by mki

A signed Windows driver with the following functions is available: open, close, single word read, single word write, DMA read, DMA write. So far it is tested under Windows 7. Mininmalistic LabVIEW VIs are available for that function set too. … Continue reading →

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Fix for compilation error for SIS1100 Linux driver under kernel 4.2.x

Posted on December 2, 2015 by mki

Used Driver: sis1100-2.13-9 Error Description: Building errors: =============================== CC [M] /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.o /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c: In function ‘sis1100_ddma_unmap_block’: /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c:54:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vfree’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] vfree(block->desc_pages); ^ /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c: In function ‘sis1100_ddma_map_block’: /home/daq/Workspace/daq/exaos/eldaq/vme/sis3100/driver/src/sis1100_ddma_map_linux.c:130:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vmalloc’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] block->desc_pages=vmalloc(block->dsegs* sizeof(struct sis1100_dmapage)); … Continue reading →

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Installation of SIS1100 driver under CENTOS7

Posted on November 12, 2014 by mki

Issue: Installation of SIS1100 driver in a new work station with CENTOS7 results in  error message upon compilation: make -C /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/build SUBDIRS=/home/dacq/SIS1100/sis1100-2.13-9/dev/pci modules make: *** /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/build: No such file or directory.  Stop. make: *** [driver] Error 2 Solution: Installation of the … Continue reading →

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SIS3150 LINUX driver under Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on May 22, 2013 by mki

Thanks to Volker Hannen from the University of Münster for bringing to our attention: Under Ubuntu 12.04 the USB library resides in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ and is not found by the configure script. Setting the link below allows for compilation /usr/lib/libusb.a -> … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 support for Struck USB and PCI(e) VME interfaces

Posted on March 27, 2013 by mki

We do have Windows 8 support for our USB to VME  and PCI/PCI Express interfaces starting with the SIS3150 driver release v3.0 and the SIS1100e/310x driver release 6.4.2.4

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SIS1100e/310x LINUX driver 2.13-8 online

Posted on March 20, 2013 by mki

Patched for kernel up to 3.8.0 Tested to be working up to kernel 3.7.10 (openSUSE 12.3) SIS1100(e)/310x page with  2.13-8

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SIS1100e/310x LINUX driver opensuse 12.3rc1 at kernel 3.7.6

Posted on February 8, 2013 by mki

Thanks to Tibor Keri from the University of Glasgow for bringing the following to our attention: In kernel 3.7-rc1, the flag VM_RESERVED is removed The implication is, that sis11_mmap.c requires the following patch: /*   offset in bytes           + size of … Continue reading →

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Using autosensing SIS3104 with older LINUX drivers

Posted on August 9, 2012 by mki

Autosensing SIS3104’s (firmware 0x03020202) are recognized from driver 2.13-7 onwards. To continue working with older drivers with an up to date SIS3104 you will have to modify sis3100rem_init.c by adding the corresponding case to the switch (sc_remote_ident&0x00ffff00) as shown below. … Continue reading →

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SIS1100 LINUX driver 2.13-5 for Ubuntu 11.10 Kernel 3.0.0-12

Posted on December 6, 2011 by mki

Thanks to Bastian Löher from GSI Darmstadt for following input: The  Version 2.13-5 driver for the sis1100 can be compiled for kernel 3.0.0-12 (Ubuntu 11.10) by altering line 31 of the  Makefile: -ifneq (,$(findstring 2.6.,$(KERNVER))) +ifneq (,$(findstring 3.0.,$(KERNVER))) A driver release … Continue reading →

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