From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 19 6:38: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D72F154D9 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 06:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14562; Wed, 19 May 1999 07:37:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3742BEA6.E01BFF40@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 07:37:42 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Cc: Nick Hibma , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any interest in GPS NTP servers ? (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > At home I quite happyly use a cheap DeLorme GPS connected to xntpd > and it just works and works and works :-) I did modify the serial > output port though; to get a 5v signal on the RI; which the DeLorme > unit can use instead of its batteries. > > But then again; these things both output serial NMEA, no proper > ethernet; and no easy to use PPS signal unless you solder something. But NTP does have support for the $GPRMC sentence, right? I've been using my Garmin GPS-II off and on since I bought it; it was sort of purchased to play with NTP, then used on my sailboat. Yah, right. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message