National Instruments NI 8171 Series Drivers and Software

Chapter2 Installationand Configuration

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The PXI-1020 has an integrated PS/2 mouse. The PXI-1025 has an

integrated PS/2 keyboard and mouse. To simplify configuration for these

chassis,the NI 8171 series includes an internal USB-to-PS/2 adapter. When

the NI 8171 series is installed in a PXI-1020 or PXI-1025 chassis, the

USB-to-PS/2 adapteris enabled automatically. With this adapter, you can

useboth the chassis’integrated keyboard/mouse and the PS/2 keyboard and

mouse connected to the NI 8171 series front panel. To enable

keyboard/mouse access in DOS or Windows NT environments, you must

enablethe legacy USB.See t he Advanced Setup Menu section for more

information.

Drivers and Software

Your hard drive includes a directory called images in its root that

contains software and soft copies of manuals for the peripherals. The

directory structure under the images directory is logically organized into

severall evels.

In the images directory itself, you will find a manualsdi rectory,

an osdirectory, and directories for each computer peripheral.

The manualsdirectory contains quick reference guides, technical

reference manuals, and National Instruments software manuals, all in

Adobe Acrobatformat. To access any manual, change your directory to

c:\images\pxi8171\manualsand list the contents of that directory.

Youwill see several files, one corresponding to each peripheral.

The os directory contains a subdirectory corresponding to the operating

system installed on your computer.

The restof the directories correspond to each peripheral in your system.

Withineach of these directories are the drivers for the peripherals. These

filesand directories are copied exactly from the manufacturer distribution

disks, so the naming conventionsvary from peripheral to peripheral.

Because the naming conventionsmay not be completely straightforward,

National Instruments provides a text filenamed drivers.txtin the

c:\images\pxi8171directory. The drivers.txt file explains how

to installs upport for each peripheral. Youmay want to print this file for

reference when you install your peripheral device drivers.