Release of Maranello firmware source code for Broadcom cards

Michael Büsch mb at bu3sch.de
Sun Oct 10 08:34:56 EDT 2010


On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 12:19 +0200, francesco.gringoli at ing.unibs.it
wrote: 
> Maranello is an enhancement of the 802.11 DCF standard: it implements
> a Partial Packet Recovery technique to retransmit only the corrupt
> parts of failed packets. This reduces the airtime and contributes to
> enhance the throughput. It was written starting from OpenFWWF5.2 by
> adding a number of new features.

Hey, that looks really cool. :)
So does this firmware work in AP and STA mode? I guess so, because it
seems you need support for the nonstandard enhancement on both STA
and AP.

-- 
Greetings Michael.




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