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Re: RFC: RT3070 TX Power troubles

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On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:00:10PM +0400, Alex A. Mihaylov wrote:
> Good day!
> 
> I use Jorjin WN8020 USB WiFi module with RT3070 chip.
> On Windows and Os X module have 15dBm output power, but on Linux about
> 3dBm with 'ifconfig wlan0 txpower 20' and less if txpower set less,
> than 20dBm.
> 
> I analyse Ralink driver and found RF_R49/RF_R50 registers present in
> ralnik code, but abcent in Linux drivers. I try patch code:

Patch gnerally looks fine.

> 
> +	/*
> +	 * FixMe: Why POWER_BOUND and FREQ_OFFSET_BOUND not init here?
> +	 */
???

> +	rt2800_rfcsr_read(rt2x00dev, 17, &rfcsr);
> +	if (rt2x00dev->freq_offset > FREQ_OFFSET_BOUND)
> +		rt2x00_set_field8(&rfcsr, RFCSR17_CODE, FREQ_OFFSET_BOUND);
> +	else
> +		rt2x00_set_field8(&rfcsr, RFCSR17_CODE, rt2x00dev->freq_offset);
> +	rt2800_rfcsr_write(rt2x00dev, 17, rfcsr);

Do we also need to init RF_R17 ? Does vendor driver do this ?

> and tx power stay 15dBm (ass writen in WN8020 specification) if
> txpower set to 20dBm in driver, and about 0dBm if tx power set to 0dBm
> in driver.
> I also found function rt2800_config_channel_rf2xxx without
> initialisation POWER_BOUND and FREQ_OFFSET_BOUND. May be this also
> incorrect?

Not sure, need to check on old vendor driver.

Stanislaw
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