[mat-wg] Trimble GPS from old TTM

Sorry to be clear, we are also 'reclaiming the ex TTM h/w in this case, so
its analogous, just we stuck to BSD. Wiped the RIPE config, (backed up the
FS) and installed our own.


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:48 AM, George Michaelson <ggm at apnic.net> wrote:

> We just upgraded BSD to 10 and it seems to be fne, but I haven't completed
> the cutover. Certainly, the driver ID for the 127.x.x.x instance is still
> in the BSD port codebase.
>
> -G
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Romeo Zwart <romeo.zwart at ripe.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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