NetBSD Problem Report #6408

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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:45:34 +0100 (MET)
From: martin@rumolt.teuto.de
Reply-To: martin@rumolt.teuto.de
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: there is no driver for conrad electronics PCDCF clock receiver
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>Number:         6408
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       There is no driver for the cheapest DCF77 clock receiver available in Germany
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    martin
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 07 06:35:01 +0000 1998
>Closed-Date:    Wed May 23 06:10:11 +0000 2018
>Last-Modified:  Wed May 23 06:10:11 +0000 2018
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        1.3H as of 1st October
>Organization:
>Environment:

System: NetBSD hwart.teuto.de 1.3H NetBSD 1.3H (HWART) #0: Sat Oct 3 14:01:38 CEST 1998 martin@hwart.teuto.de:/usr/src/sys-i4b/arch/i386/compile/HWART i386


>Description:

There is a realy cheap DCF77 clock receiver (called PCDCF) available from
Conrad electronics here in Germany. It plugs into a parallel port. The
protocol is documented, so writing a driver was easy.

>How-To-Repeat:
n/a

>Fix:
A kernel driver (patch to sys/dev/lpt.c) and patches for the in-tree xntp
version are available from http://homepages.teuto.net/martin/pcdcf.tar.gz
and a userland tool to check it's battery status, receive quality etc
from http://homepages.teuto.net/martin/pcdcf-tool.tar.gz

I'm going to submit the xntp patches back to the xntp maintainers too.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Martin Husemann" <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
To: <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
Cc: <hwr@pilhuhn.de>
Subject: RE: kern/6408
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 10:00:00 +0200

 Not sure (the pictures show only software, which I never ran): 967602-62

 I was told there are even cheaper serial DCF77 modules available (about
 20,-- DM), but I never got my hands on one.

 None of this do pulse-per-second with an interrupt, so for real NTP they are
 less than ideal. It works for me to get the time within a second or so...


 Martin

Responsible-Changed-From-To: kern-bug-people->martin
Responsible-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:41:20 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
martin can handle his own PRs now :-)


State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: martin@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Wed, 23 May 2018 06:10:11 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Obsolete hardware, no longer available.


>Unformatted:

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