Once upon a time, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Adams) writes: >> The way I finally got mine working in a stable setup was to use USB for >> the NMEA statements and put the PPS signal over a pin on the parallel >> port (using shm_splc2 to get the PPS from there to ntpd) since I didn't >> have an available serial port. > >The moral is: don't buy a computer without a serial port :)
Well, I have a serial port, but it is the serial console. Not many PC type systems (including servers) come with _two_ serial ports anymore. Many still come with a parallel port (that is otherwise unused). I could have added a PCI serial card, but then I still would have needed to get power from somewhere. >> This way I also don't need another power source. > >You can also draw power from a USB port without actually connecting a >USB device or transferring any data over it. Yeah, I looked at that, but I've got an SVeeSix, and it is rated to draw a little more power than you are allowed as an unconfigured USB device. So, I used a USB-to-RS232 interface (DLP-2232M) to get both signal and power. -- Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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