On 2024-06-28, Geoff Steckel <gwes@oat.com> wrote:
> On 6/27/24 22:23, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>> I'm looking at purchasing a Dell Latitude rugged laptop that has an
>> option for a u-blox GPS card. It is a fairly expensive option and I am
>> wondering if anyone has been able to get one of these cards to work with
>> ntpd in OpenBSD. I have searched the archives and have not been able to
>> find reports of a device that works fine but hopefully that is a good
>> sign. Anyone use one of these u-blox GPS cards?
>>
>> Bryan
>>
> I have a precision GPS-disciplined oscillator which contains
> a u-blox gps module. It connects to one machine via a serial port and
> works well
> as a time reference. The NMEA data comes through perfectly.
>
> You'd have to figure out what device the OS will see - serial? usb? ??
> The only interface I've -seen- for them is serial but that doesn't mean
> something else hasn't been made.
>
> Then, perhaps harder, is finding a program to use the data.
The kernel can read NMEA sentences - see nmea(4), ldattach(8).
It populates sensors; openntpd can read the time from there.
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