NI VISA is available for Linux, why not your Card? (Ebay question)

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Customer Question from Ebay:

Your listing says that this item "Directly support NI MAX and NI VISA" but then below that you say it is not supported in Linux. Are you sure this is the case? NI VISA is available for Linux so one would think it should work. Or is there something about this device that I don't understand that prevents it from working under Linux? Thanks. 

Answer: 

gcog***

that's a really good question. you are right, we may have something described not clear and made confusion to customer. We will change the word later to make it more clear.

For our S82357, we originally designed to make it work with Agilent VISA and IO Suite. And since Agilent VISA now is compatible with NI VISA (simply enable the 488 program setting under Agilent IO library), we are very easy to realize this function too on our GPIB card.

But, Agilent did not provide their own driver (VISA) for Linux, so our GPIB card can not work under Linux, that's why we said we can not support Linux.

In one word, we made the card exactly work as Agilent GPIB interface, but not as NI GPIB interface. It just compatible with NI VISA under Windows, but not other environment.

Let me know if you have further questions.

BR

- monolust