[LinuxPPS] Need help with setting up LinuxPPS/NTP server

[Robert Jenkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxpps-bounces at ml.enneenne.com 
> [mailto:linuxpps-bounces at ml.enneenne.com] On Behalf Of Richard Abbott
> Sent: 08 October 2008 17:53
> To: linuxpps at ml.enneenne.com
> Subject: [LinuxPPS] Need help with setting up LinuxPPS/NTP server
> 
> Hello all. I am having a bit of trouble getting a system 
> configured to 
> pull time and PPS from my GPS unit. I think I am close but 
> I'm not sure 
> where the disconnect in my system or configuration is and am 
> hoping that 
> y'all will be able to help me.
> 
........snip...
>  >ntpd -g
>  >ntpq -p
>      remote               refid                    st t when poll 
> reach   delay   offset  jitter
> ==============================================================
> ================
> xGPS_NMEA(0)   .GPS.                  0 l   17   16  376    0.000  
> -641.83  72.089
> +ntp2.your.org       64.202.112.65    3 u   48   64  377   29.920    
> 8.623   0.722
> *rrcs-64-183-55- .GPS.                   1 u   63   64  377   
> 66.258   
> -2.181   1.880
> +mercury.element  128.252.19.1       2 u   33   64  377   42.065    
> 6.104   1.858
>  LOCAL(0)           .LOCL.               10 l   40   64  377  
>   0.000    
> 0.000   0.001
> 
......snip.....
> 
>  From the ntpq -p you can see that the ntp daemon says the 
> GPS is being 
> designated a flasticker and not being used. I do not know what is 
> causing this.
> 
> Any help you could provide or resources you could point me to 
> would be 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> --
> Richard Abbott

I was getting exactly the same result, I have rebuilt everything more times
than I want to remember and I could not get a PPS lock..

As Hal Engel suggested, there were TWO pps sources and I was using the fake
rather than the real one.
All I've done is change the symlink /dev/ppsgps0 to pps1 rather than pps0
and it's locked within a couple of minutes.

DOH!!!

Thanks Hal.
Robert Jenkins.