Release of Maranello firmware source code for Broadcom cards

Michael Büsch mb at bu3sch.de
Sun Oct 10 13:11:12 EDT 2010


On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 18:49 +0200, francesco.gringoli at ing.unibs.it
wrote:

> yes, the firmware works in AP mode, it is the basic AP mode implemented
> by OpenFWWF. And yes, both AP and STA implement partial packet recovery.
> We tested both directions and in our testbed (and most importantly with
> the hardware we have... unfortunately not all 4318/06 are equal :-( )
> it was stable and we never experienced crashes.

So it is possible to disable the Maranello feature in that firmware
(via SHM parameter or possibly also compiletime switch) to run it in
standard mode?
I think that would get the firmware base a lot more testing coverage.

-- 
Greetings Michael.




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