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ath79: wndr3700 series: fix wifi range & throughput

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Based on the PCB pictures, the WNDR3700(v1) really had eight
independent antennae. Four antennae for each radio and all of
those were printed on the circut board.

Reported-by: Luca Bensi
Reported-by: Maciej Mazur
Reported-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
Debugged-by: Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
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Christian Lamparter 2020-06-07 22:57:46 +02:00 committed by AmadeusGhost
parent 6b2a906332
commit 90f4c469d8
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target/linux/ath79/dts/ar7161_netgear_wndr3700.dts
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@ -32,3 +32,24 @@
read-only;
};
};
&ath9k1 {
/* The original WNDR3700(v1) variant have four antennae dedicated
* to the 5GHz radio as well. Again, two antennae are available for
* each chain to switch between. The following configuration is the
* default setting which taken from the vendor's wifi
* code for that radio.
*
* All possible options [GPIO6,GPIO7,GPIO8,GPIO9]:
* [0,1,0,1], [0,1,1,0], [1,0,0,1], [1,0,1,0]
*/
antenna-demux {
gpio-hog;
line-name = "fixed antenna group 2";
gpios = <6 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>,
<7 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>,
<8 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>,
<9 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
output-high;
};
};

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target/linux/ath79/dts/ar7161_netgear_wndr3700.dtsi
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@ -160,6 +160,25 @@
qca,no-eeprom;
#gpio-cells = <2>;
gpio-controller;
/* all WNDR3700 variants have four antennae dedicated
* to the 2.4GHz radio. Two antennae are available for
* each chain. The following configuration is the
* default setting which taken from the vendor's wifi
* code for that radio.
*
* All possible options [GPIO6,GPIO7,GPIO8,GPIO9]:
* [0,1,0,1], [0,1,1,0], [1,0,0,1], [1,0,1,0]
*/
antenna-demux {
gpio-hog;
line-name = "fixed antenna group 1";
gpios = <6 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>,
<7 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>,
<8 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>,
<9 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
output-high;
};
};
ath9k1: wifi@0,12 {