Release of Maranello firmware source code for Broadcom cards

[francesco.gringoli at ing.unibs.it]

On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> 2010/10/10  <francesco.gringoli at ing.unibs.it>:
>> Hello there,
>> 
>> we released the source code of the Maranello firmware and all the
>> necessary kernel patches. It was tested on Broadcom 4318/4306 pci
>> cards on PC architecture. Find all the necessary files browsing from
>> 
>> http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf
>> 
>> or go directly here
>> 
>> http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/maranello
>> 
>> 
>> 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, thanks for info!
> 
> Did you just add recovery feature to OpenFWWF 5.2 or did you improve
> basic OpenFWWF as well?
> 
> My 4318 with OpenFWWF 5.2 stops transmitting after few MB. Can
> Maranello contain any fix for this? I'll able to test this later next
> week.
No, I don't think so. OpenFWWF5.2 does not handle correctly fifo overflow conditions. We have a testing firmware that handles them (and that works perfectly on WRT54GL): I hope we can release it soon.

Kind regards,
-Francesco Gringoli


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