ath rx/tx antenna & diversity

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 14 08:32:37 UTC 2011


Ignore it for 802.11n chipsets. Unless you're using AR9285 - then
doubly ignore it for now, because it doesn't quite do what's
advertised.

On all the 11n chipsets besides AR9285, all antennas are used for TX/RX.

AR9285 has two antennas but only one is used for TX; there's some
configuration possible but it doesn't implement the below "way". I
need to try and tidy that up too before 9.0-RELEASE.

(AR9281 is an AR9280 with only one TX side too; but I haven't made the
AR9281 work yet, so it's very unlikely you have one. :)


ADrian

On 14 September 2011 16:29, Berislav Purgar <bpurgar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Can someone tell me whether this is also suitable for freebsd ?? (i'ts from
> wireless details on PFSenseDoc)
>
> dev.ath.0.txantenna: *0,1,2* *(antenna port 1 or 2, both=0)*
> dev.ath.0.rxantenna:
> *0,1,2* *(antenna port 1 or 2, both=0)* dev.ath.0.diversity: *0,1* *(0=disable
> 1=enable)*
> tnx ..
>
> Beri
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