NI Linux Device Drivers 2023 Q3 Readme

July 2023

This file contains installation instructions and compatibility information for NI Linux Device Drivers 2023 Q3.

You can find more release information on ni.com.

• NI Linux Device Drivers Release Notes: for known issues, bugs fixed since the last release, and other release details.

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New Features

Installation Instructions

Package Repositories

Supported Drivers

Product Security and Critical Updates

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Overview

NI Linux Device Drivers software provides Linux Desktop support for a variety of NI test and measurement hardware. It offers repository registration packages for each supported Linux distribution. Once the appropriate driver software repository is registered for the system, use the Linux distribution's native package manager to install NI driver software packages.

New Features

• Hardware Configuration Utility support for RF composite devices

Installation Instructions

Refer to Download and Install NI Driver Software on Linux Desktop.

Package Repositories

NI Linux Device Drivers are installed from one of the following two options.

• Static repository registration packages are labeled with a date-based suffix, such as ni-rhel8-drivers-2023Q2. Software from this repository is not intended to change, and it is updated only for critical patches. Use this kind of repository when you need to reproduce a specific software stack.
• Stream repository registration packages are labeled with a -stream suffix, for example: ni-rhel8-drivers-stream. Software in this repository is updated regularly with the latest versions of each driver package as it is released. Running an update/upgrade command with a package manager will update installed NI packages to their latest released version for systems that have registered a stream repository. This kind of repository is the simplest way to keep NI driver software up to date.

Firstlook is present in some repository registration package names, for example ni-ubuntu2204firstlook-drivers-2023Q2.deb. Firstlook identifies a newer repository that is now in an introductory roll-out phase as NI steadily adds and validates individual drivers over the course of multiple releases. Although not yet comprehensive, support for these repositories is progressing to the same level to that of other distributions.

If you plan to upgrade to a new distribution and you see "firstlook" in its NI repository registration package name, refer to the Supported Drivers table to ensure that the NI products you need support the new distribution.

Supported Drivers

For a list of supported hardware, refer to the NI Hardware and Operating System Compatibility page. For details about a specific driver's system requirements, limitations, and so on, refer to the readme for the individual driver (linked below).

The following table shows driver support for several Linux distributions. Use your Linux distribution's package manager to install the specified add-on files for an NI driver.

NI Driver Support for Linux Distributions

Driver	Packages	RHEL18	RHEL1 9	openSUSE2 15.3	openSUSE2 15.4	Ubuntu3 20.04	Ubuntu3 22.04	Driver Release Notes
Tested Kernel		4.18	5.14	5.3	5.14	5.13	5.15
NI-488.2	Required Packages: ni-488.2 Optional Packages: libni4882-devel ni-488.2-iotrace-support							NI-488.2 2023 Q3
Automotive Diagnostic Command Set Toolkit	Required Packages: ni-adcs Optional Packages: ni-adcs-labview-20xy-support libnidiagcs-devel							Automotive Diagnostic Command Set Toolkit 2022 Q4
NI-DAQmx	Required Packages: ni-daqmx Optional Packages: ni-daqmx-labview-20xy-support ni-daqmx-labview-support libnidaqmx-devel							NI-DAQmx 2023 Q3
NI-DCPower	Required Packages: ni-dcpower Optional Packages: ni-dcpower-daqmx ni-dcpower-labview-20xy-support ni-dcpower-labview-support ni-dcpower-devel							NI-DCPower 2023 Q3
NI-DMM	Required Packages: ni-dmm Optional Packages: ni-dmm-daqmx ni-dmm-labview-20xy-support ni-dmm-labview-support ni-dmm-devel							NI-DMM 2023 Q3
ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit	Required Packages: ni-ecumc Optional Packages: ni-ecumc-labview-20xy-support libniemcc-devel							ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2022 Q4
NI-FGEN	Required Packages: ni-fgen Optional Packages: ni-fgen-daqmx ni-fgen-devel ni-fgen-labview-support ni-fgen-labview-20xy-support							NI-FGEN 2023 Q3
FlexRIO	Required Packages: ni-flexrio Optional Packages: ni-flexrio-795x ni-flexrio-796x ni-flexrio-797x libniflexrioapi-devel ni-flexrio-modulario-libs-devel							FlexRIO 2023 Q3
Hardware Configuration Utility	Required Packages: ni-hwcfg-utility							Hardware Configuration Utility 2023 Q3
PXI Platform Services	Required Packages: ni-pxiplatformservices Optional Packages: ni-pxiplatformservices-labview-20xy-support ni-pxiplatformservices-labview-support ni-pxiplatformservices-devel							PXI Platform Services 2023 Q3
NI-RIO4	Required Packages: ni-fpga-interface Optional Packages: ni-rio-mxie							NI-RIO 2023 Q3
NI R Series	Required Packages: ni-rseries							NI R Series 2023 Q3
NI-RFSA	Required Packages: ni-rfsa Optional Packages: ni-rfsa-daqmx ni-rfsa-labview-20xy-support ni-rfsa-devel							NI-RFSA 2023 Q3
NI-RFSG	Required Packages: ni-rfsg Optional Packages: ni-rfsg-daqmx ni-rfsg-labview-20xy-support ni-rfsg-devel							NI-RFSG 2023 Q3
NI-SCOPE	Required Packages: ni-scope Optional Packages: ni-scope-daqmx ni-scope-labview-20xy-support ni-scope-labview-support ni-scope-devel							NI-SCOPE 2023 Q3
NI-Serial	Required Packages: ni-serial							NI-Serial 2023 Q2
NI-SWITCH	Required Packages: ni-switch Optional Packages: ni-switch-daqmx ni-switch-daqmx-config ni-switch-labview-support ni-switch-labview-20xy-examples ni-switch-devel							NI-SWITCH 2023 Q3
NI-Sync	Required Packages: ni-sync Optional Packages: ni-sync-devel ni-sync-labview-20xy-support ni-sync-labview-support							NI-Sync 2023 Q1
System Configuration	Required Packages: ni-syscfg-runtime Optional Packages: ni-syscfg-labview-20xy-support ni-syscfg-labview-support ni-iotrace ni-syscfg-devel							System Configuration 2023 Q3
NI-VISA	Required Packages: ni-visa Optional Packages: ni-visa-labview-20xy-support ni-visa-labview-support ni-visa-devel							NI-VISA 2023 Q3
NI-XNET	Required Packages: ni-xnet Optional Packages: ni-xnet-labview-20xy-support libnixnet-devel							NI-XNET 2023 Q2
1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 openSUSE Leap 3 Ubuntu LTS 4 Enables connections via the FPGA Interface API to remote RIO devices such as CompactRIO, Single-Board RIO, and Ethernet RIO

Optional package types:
There are several categories of optional packages including:
LabVIEW support packages: These packages install the driver APIs to LV. These have the driver and 'labview' in the package name. They come in two types: version-specific LV support packages (the older style) which list a year and version-agnostic LV support packages (the newer style). Only use the version-specific LV support package when there's one that matches the version of LV that you need to use. Otherwise use the version-agnostic one.
Development packages: These packages install header files that are needed to compile code with the driver, but that aren't required to execute code that was compiled somewhere else. Typically this is needed on the development machine, but not always on a deployed system. These package names end with "-devel".
driver-DAQmx support packages: NI-DCPower, NI-DMM, NI-FGEN, NI-RFSA, NI-RFSG, NI-SCOPE, and NI-SWITCH each have a few HW devices that have separate drivers built on top of DAQmx. These packages function as the top-level driver package for those particular HW models.

For additional information about supported operating systems, refer to the NI Operating System Support Roadmap.

For an introduction to using Linux with NI products see About the NI Platform on Linux

Product Security and Critical Updates

Visit ni.com/security to view and subscribe to receive security notifications about NI products. For information about critical updates from NI, refer to Available Critical and Security Updates for NI Software.

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