2016-11-21 05:48:05

by Miaoqing Pan

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9.0-rc5] AR9300 calibration problems with antenna selected


I would prefer that you didn't submit this.

>
> I recently tried to select a single antenna on AR9300 and it works for
> 30 seconds only. The subsequent calibration makes the RX signal level
> to drop from the usual -30/-40 dBm to -70/-80 dBm, and the
> transmission practically stops.
>
> With the attached patch it works, though selecting the antenna doesn't
> seem to have any visible effect, at least with "iw wlanX station dump"
> (perhaps it works for TX).
>
> I'm using ad-hoc mode:
>
> rmmod ath9k
> modprobe ath9k
> iw dev wlan0 set type ibss
> iw phy phyX set antenna 2

2 is a bad mask. We use bitmap, the valid masks are 1, 3, 7.

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Miaoqing


2016-11-21 14:17:46

by Matthias May

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9.0-rc5] AR9300 calibration problems with antenna selected

On 21/11/16 14:54, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
>
>>> rmmod ath9k
>>> modprobe ath9k
>>> iw dev wlan0 set type ibss
>>> iw phy phyX set antenna 2
>>
>> 2 is a bad mask. We use bitmap, the valid masks are 1, 3, 7.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I have two antenna connections (and a single antenna). Is it possible to
> select the secondary antenna connector only? How?
>

No this is not really possible.
We have been playing around with this two, three years ago with this.
There are just too many things which rely on chain0
Noise calibration, DFS, Temperature measurement, Spectrum measurement
are just a few of the things I remember which don't work realiably anymore.
See [1] for more.

BR
Matthias

[1]
http://ath9k-devel.ath9k.narkive.com/QZcobwy1/ath9k-deaf-qca9558-when-setting-rxchainmask#post1

2016-11-21 13:54:57

by Krzysztof Hałasa

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9.0-rc5] AR9300 calibration problems with antenna selected

[email protected] writes:

>> rmmod ath9k
>> modprobe ath9k
>> iw dev wlan0 set type ibss
>> iw phy phyX set antenna 2
>
> 2 is a bad mask. We use bitmap, the valid masks are 1, 3, 7.

Thanks for your response.

I have two antenna connections (and a single antenna). Is it possible to
select the secondary antenna connector only? How?
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Krzysztof Halasa

Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
Al. Jerozolimskie 202, 02-486 Warsaw, Poland