Hi Antonio,

On 14/05/13 00:44 , Antonio M. Moreiras wrote:
> Hello, we are trying to reuse the trimble GPS from our old TTM server in
> a Linux NTP machine, and it is not working.

We have been doing some testing in the RIPE NCC with some linux
flavours. A RIPE Labs article with details is in preparation and will be
shared with this list soon.

We will contact you off line to share our experience.

Regards,
Romeo

> We can read some trash with a "cat /dev/ttyS0" (what means that the GPS
> is sending information), and we can use PPS driver (127.127.22.0) to
> read correctly the PPS signal. But the driver from RIPE (127.127.43.0)
> doesn't work.
>
> We compiled the ntpd (version 4.2.6p5) with the following options:
>
> ./configure --with-openssl-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> --with-openssl-incdir=/usr/include --enable-RIPENCC
>
> Our Linux is:
>
> # uname -a
> Linux monitor 3.11.0-20-generic #35~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2
> 21:32:55 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> # lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
> Release:    12.04
> Codename:    precise
>
> Only after follow the recommendations at
> http://linuxpps.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxPPS_NTPD_support, the driver
> 127.127.43.0 is loaded by NTP, and appears in the list of peers, but no
> sync, just zeros.
>
> Does anyone in this list have any tips?
>
> Regards,
> Moreiras.

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