[LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS on (k)Ubuntu

[folkert]

> Although I tried previously to run LinuxPPS on my (k)Ubuntu-machine, 
> I thought that with 'real inclusion' of LinuxPPS in 2.6.34 problems would 
> disappear. On my other Debian-based machines I encounter no problems
> activating the PPS-API (b.t.w. on these machines the PPS-API is compiled
> into the kernel and not loaded as a module). 
> remco at xyz> ttyctrl -X -s 18 /dev/ttyS0 &
> remco at xyz> ttyctrl: unable to set line discipline "18" for device "/dev/ttyS0" (Invalid argument)
> remco at xyz> ldattach PPS /dev/ttyS0
> ldattach: cannot set line discipline: Invalid argument
> remco at xyz> ldattach 18 /dev/ttyS0
> ldattach: cannot set line discipline: Invalid argument

Yes, same problem here with stock debian kernel.
With one compiled from source (e.g. a kernel source package! so that you
get a .deb file so to say) it runs flawless:

...
ok, it is down now ;-)



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