>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:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov  7 06:35:01 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Organization:
>Release:        1.3H as of 1st October
>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.
>Audit-Trail:
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