Julien wrote:
Richard B. Gilbert a écrit :
The Garmin GPS18LVC is available for something like $85 US. An Oncore
M12 timing receiver with evaluation circuit board, is available from
http://www.synergy-gps.com/ for around $200 US. The Oncore used to be
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According to http://time.qnan.org/, the Garmin GPS18LVC looks fine to
me, however I have a few concerns:
1/ I don't want to use my soldering iron. Anyone knows a reseller that
provide something similar to the RS-232 interface at
http://time.qnan.org/ ?
2/ My servers are shipped with RHEL3, which come with a 2.4
pre-compiled Linux kernel and ntpd. I want to avoid any patching and
compilation. What do I need to do to make ntpd read the PPS and the GPS
time? Would the serial module (providing /dev/ttys*) and gpsd suffice?
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You must either use your soldering iron or spend more money. The
Motorola Oncore that I mentioned was ordered with an evaluation circuit
board and included an antenna, an RS232 cable, and a "universal" power
supply. That was $200 US. You can just plug that in and it works. The
disadvantage is that it's a naked circuit board with no protective case.
For still more money, you get more; a metal case, built in power supply,
an NTP server and network interface, etc. The more you pay the more
you get.
For about $1100 US, Meinberg Funkuhren will sell you a GPS receiver on a
PCI card that you can just plug into the computer. Check their web site
for the technical details; it looks to me like a very nice gadget but
the price is a good deal more than I'm prepared to spend.
Symmetricom has a model BC637PCI which is a GPS disciplined crystal
oscillator on a PCI card. I believe that might cost as much as $3000 US.
If you contact the author of the web page http://time.qnan.org/ he might
be willing to produce some of the interfaces he designed; what he has
done is to provide a means to power the Garmin GPS receiver from a USB
connector and you will still have to use a soldering iron to attach a
DB-9 connector to the GPS receiver.
You will need to edit the ntp.conf file provided by Red Hat. You will
need to create links for the serial interface and the PPS output. I'm
not familiar with the details; I've never used the Garmin GPS.
If Red Hat does not distribute a very recent version of ntpd, you should
probably install the latest and greatest from ntp.org.
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