Instrument Control Toolbox won't recognize NI-VISA drivers on OS X Lion

I'd like to use the Instrument Control toolbox on a Mac running OS X Lion to communicate with GPIB hardware through a NI GPIB-ENET 100. I am using this arrangement currently with LabView, which would seem to indicate a correct installation of NI-488.2 and NI-VISA. This page:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-CQEG8P/index.html?product=IC&solution=1-CQEG8P

indicates that this was not possible with R2010a on a 64-bit Mac because the current version of NI-VISA was 32-bit.

According to this page:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/6C6A2DBFAA16E93B862578B50069F162

the latest version of NI-VISA (5.2.1), which is what I am running, is 64-bit compatible.

However, the instrument control toolbox still does not recognize the VISA drivers.

What am I missing here?

[Walter Roberson]

Out of curiosity: are you running on a Mac Pro? That's the only current Mac I can think of that accepts add-on cards.

[Brian zhang]

do you use *.mdd matlab driver? looking for *.mdd driver and don't know how to talk to it yet. anyone see a *.mdd user manual?

[Micke Malmström]

any news? I too get the message: "No VISA drivers detected"

Answer 1

[Vinod]

Have you tried the R2015b pre-release with the latest version of NI VISA for the Mac?

Answer 2

[Vinod]

You should be able to use the Hardware Support Package to install the necessary software on the Mac to use NI VISA to connect to instruments.