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gpib package

  1. Bug #242986
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 242986

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Don Levin (don-m-levin) wrote : Re: [Bug 242986] Re: gpib-modules-source will not compile

Thank you. I purchased an Agilent 5810 LAN/gpib gateway and use LAN
commands, which are converted to GPIB. I later learned of a $150
USB/GPIB converter. I've had too much trouble from GPIB in the past on
Fedora and Ubuntu.

On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 21:37 +0000, scott_selberg wrote:
> I replaced the kill_proc(...) call with send_sig( SIGKILL,
> find_task_by_vpid( board->autopoll_pid), 1 ); and all seems to work
> great on Jaunty.
>
> Note, there may be a need to use a different function rather than
> find_task_by_vpid() based on name spaces. I'm not an expert and the
> call I used assumes the process is in the same name space which I
> suspect is valid and seems to work.
>