[ntp:questions] Re: FreeBSD version with PPS support

Piotr Trojanek ptrojane at mion.elka.pw.edu.pl
Wed Jul 27 19:55:30 UTC 2005


On 2005-07-27, John Pettitt <jpp at cloudview.com> wrote:
>
> Eugen COCA wrote:
>> We have a Garmin 18LVC GPS receiver with PPS output. We wish to install
>> a FreeBSD operating system on a P3 machine.
>> 
>> The question is what distribution should we use to have the PPS signal
>> supported ?
>> 
>> Is there necessary to install additional patches ?
>> 
>> Thank you !
>> 
>
> 5.3 or 5.4 work fine you'll need to build a kernel with options
> PPS_SYNC defined and then make a sym link from  /dev/pps0 and
> /dev/gps0 to the serial port you use (ttyd0 in my case)

The same is true for 4.x series of FreeBSD so you can choose
the distribution you like.

-- 
Piotr Trojanek
Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland




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