[ntp:questions] 1PPS signal on Solaris 10

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200705 at gmail.com
Tue May 22 06:38:37 UTC 2007


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> About the only way to get a serial port these days is to buy a
> machine that has one!  Most PCs come with ONE serial port (9 pin)
> and ONE parallel port.  The electronics are part of the mother
> board.

Luckily Fry's still has those dumb PCI serial ports from companies
like SIIG.  Those $10 serial ports work great for ntpd PPS sources.
(Well for xxxBSD based OS's that is.  I'm still waiting for my penguin
to learn to blink once per second.)

-wolfgang
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