This is exactly why I prefer FreeBSD. Isn't this an option for you?
Cheers, Miguel On 13/12/2011, at 10:14, "Mark C. Stephens" <[email protected]> wrote: > I just tried Fedora 16, its quite full of bugs from Anaconda to gnome and > everything in between! > > I understand the political reasons for making the full kernel source so > obfuscated to install but I wish they would have some mercy on us guys out in > userland. > > I may end up installing something like slackware because it doesn't go off > the beaten path like the RH based distros. > > > Amazing > > Thanks Anyway, Mark. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Miroslav Lichvar [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 10:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] New ntp Server > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:55:50AM +0000, Mark C. Stephens wrote: >> Oh no I am quite happy with my hp3325A ;) >> >> >> Well Okay, after a slight detour trying to get ilo100 to work, I loaded >> centos 6.0 x64 on the DL165 G2 (computer) and found it has 3.3V PCI slots. >> So none of my Serial I/O cards fit, being 5V. I have seen people take a >> dremel to them to cut a 3.3V notch, but I am not a 100% sure this works. >> >> Centos 6.0 is really impressive I have to say. Also the PPS kernel module is >> already built and installed, just need to load it. > > The kernel includes general PPS support, but there is no support for PPS on > serial devices (pps_ldisc module). You'll probably need to use a newer > version of kernel or backport the module to the old version. > You'll also need to recompile the ntp package with the timepps.h header. > > It might be easier to try a newer distro. For instance, Fedora 14 and later > have kernel, ntp and chrony packages compiled with PPS support and it should > work out of the box, even with SELinux enabled :). > > -- > Miroslav Lichvar > > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
