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Re: Small board with good Ethernet and GPS/PPS



Hi Manuel,

On  Mon  2016-11-21  09:11 , Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> [...]
> 
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 04:34:26PM -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> > [...]
> > Does anybody have a favorite small board with both a good Ethernet connection 
> > and a way to connect GPS with PPS?
> 
> I've used a olimex lime2 board for building a chart plotter
> (https://github.com/mbouyer/marine_chartplotter/wiki)
> For your project you may find a A20-OlinuxIno-micro easier to use
> (the 0.05" connectors of the lime2 requires special attention).
> Olimex has a GPS module but I'm not sure it has a pps output.
> If you don't mind doing some wiring/soldering, using MTK3339-based
> module will work, and I found it to be pretty good.
> 

Was the NetBSD installation to your Olimex board as simple as
booting the "stock" USB image and then using the provided
installer?  Or was it more hackish?

Martin




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