Maurice Hendrix wrote:
>
> Here in Western Europe we have what is known as the "DCF-77 transmitter".
> This is a radio-transmitter stationed in Germany connected to an atomic
> clock that broadcasts the time. Conrad Electronics and presumably others
> aswell sell small receivers that can be plugged into a computer's parallel
> port. A software packsge can be used to read the time from the DCF-77 clock
> and correct the system time. Now, what I would like to know is, if there are
> any persons who have some more experience with such a device on Linux. I'm
> contemplating on buying such a receiver but would like to know more first.
>
> Is there software available for Linux that allows one to use this device?
>
Have you looked in the kernel configure.help? Do a grep DCF-77 on it. I
_think_ that I saw drivers there, but I may be wrong :-(
>
> Does it work together with a ZIP-drive connected?
>
Maybe, if you use 2.2.x. and use the drivers as modules.
>
> Is it feasible to setup a network were the computer with the DCF-77 receiver
> serves as a server for the nettime (is that the correct name?) protocol?
>
XNTP is a fat server that can do all that. Maybe it speaks to the
receiver itself, w/o kernel drivers. But I have no experience with XNTP
more than installing it from rpm's...
Marc
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