Hi: I am attempting to set up a stratum 1 ntp server using the CHU Canada time signal as a reference clock. Is anybody successfully using or tested the ntp audio reference clock drivers either on a i386 or the sparc? Background: The newest version of NTP has some neat drivers that should make this dead simple. The 'Radio CHU Audio Demodulator/Decoder' is designed to allow you to simply connect the headphone output from a short wave radio to the line in on a sound card and the driver will generate a pulse-per-second signal, to condition the system clock, and extracts the time code from the signal to set the clock. Depending on your location (and I am 11 KM - 37 uS - from the transmitter in Ottawa ON.), the driver will set, and maintain, the system clock to 10s of microseconds of the 'kerect time'! The problem is that the drivers were developed on a sparc running solaris and are optimized for the sun sound system. Some of the traffic on the NG comp.protocols.time.ntp hints that people are having success on other machines (probably sparcs, but possibly i386). Mandrake 7.2 i386 and 7.1 Sparc do contain the new ntpd. Anybody playing? I would really like to hear success stores, but also any notes from people who have tried and failed. What did you try and how did it fail. At this point, I should offer to do the port, but since I don't program for beans, the result would be a long time coming, and no good when it arrived. But if we can compile some war stories, perhaps some talented sole will get some bright idea of what is broken and just fix it. Thank you all in advance. John T
