[ntp:questions] Second attempt at GPS-18 based NTP server

Thomas Laus lausts at acm.org
Thu Feb 2 14:17:16 UTC 2012


On 2012-02-02, Paul Duncan <pdu at noc.ac.uk> wrote:
> So, I *think* that everything is okay, and it is using the PPS signal. 
> There is one slight worry, which is what I see in /var/log/messages:
>
> Feb  2 09:50:16 tock ntpd[1573]: refclock_nmea: time_pps_kcbind failed: 
> Operation not supported
>
> Please note, I have not done any recompiling of the kernel at this stage 
> - just using the GENERIC kernel, because after reading the comments from 
> Per Hederland in the System software customisation section of the above 
> web page, it seemed unnecessary. Comments?
>
I think that you will need to recompile uour kernel with the following
option added.


# Enable support for the kernel PLL to use an external PPS signal,
# under supervision of [x]ntpd(8)
# More info in ntpd documentation: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp

options         PPS_SYNC

Tom

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