On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:47 PM, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote: > 2010/10/10 <francesco.gringoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> 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 Informativa sulla privacy: http://help.ing.unibs.it/privacy.php -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
