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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/mbg.4 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/mbg.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/mbg.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..af73669d --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/mbg.4 @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: mbg.4,v 1.16 2024/03/23 10:38:02 sthen Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Marc Balmer <mbalmer@openbsd.org> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 23 2024 $ +.Dt MBG 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mbg +.Nd Meinberg Funkuhren timedelta sensor +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "mbg* at pci?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for Meinberg Funkuhren radio clocks (time signal +station and GPS receivers). +.Nm +implements a timedelta sensor and the delta (in nanoseconds) between the +received time information and the local time can be accessed through the +.Xr sysctl 8 +interface. +.Pp +The card type is indicated in the sensor description. +Currently, the following cards are supported by +.Nm : +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width "GPS170XXX" -offset indent -compact +.It GPS170PCI +3.3V/5V 6-channel GPS receiver card +.It PCI32 +5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card +.It PCI509 +5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card +.It PCI510 +3.3V/5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card +.It PCI511 +3.3V/5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card +.It PEX511 +PCI Express DCF77 time signal station receiver card +.It PZF180PEX +PCI Express DCF77 time signal station receiver card +.El +.Pp +The quality of the timedelta is reported as the sensor status: +.Bl -tag -width "CRITICALXX" -offset indent +.It UNKNOWN +No valid time information has been received yet. +.It OK +The time information is valid and the timedelta is safe to use for +applications like +.Xr ntpd 8 . +.It WARN +The time information is still valid, but no new time information has been +decoded for twelve hours (four days in the case of a GPS170PCI card) due to +a reception or parity error. +The timedelta should be used with care. +.It CRITICAL +No valid time information has been received for more than twelve hours (or +four days in the case of a GPS170PCI card) since the sensor state degraded +from OK to WARN. +This is an indication that hardware should be checked to see if it is still +functional. +.El +.Pp +A second sensor provides the relative signal quality as a percentage. +The status of this sensor is used to report the status of the device itself: +.Bl -tag -width "CRITICALXX" -offset indent +.It OK +The clock is synchronized. +.It WARN +The device's clock is free running on the local oscillator. +For DCF77 receiver cards this is not an error and can happen due to the +nature of the signal transmission using longwave radio. +.It CRITICAL +Hardware failure, e.g. communication with the device failed. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr ntpd 8 , +.Xr sysctl 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Ox 4.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Marc Balmer Aq Mt mbalmer@openbsd.org . |
