Hi Thomas, As Francesco said in the previous email, the source code of Maranello, including both firmware and kernel patches, is now available at http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/maranello/ Feel free to give it a try and let us know if you have any problems. Thanks, -Bo On Mon, December 13, 2010 2:44 pm, h2o-post wrote: > Hi Francesco, > > We are running a mesh network with 45 nodes all by Linksys wrt54g routers > in our village to get somehow internet connectivity. > As I saw your maranello paper I am curious to test your Broadcom firmware > in our productive net. > Is the firmware already available that supports this kind of crc frame > checking ? > > Regards Thomas > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: b43-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:b43-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Rafal Milecki > Gesendet: Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 19:36 > An: francesco.gringoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-wireless; b43-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Bo Han > Betreff: Re: Release of Maranello firmware source code for Broadcom cards > > W dniu 10 października 2010 18:53 użytkownik > <francesco.gringoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ?: >> On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:47 PM, RafaÅ? MiÅ?ecki 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. >>>> >>> 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. > > Wow, that's great! If you need more testing, I'm willing to do some. > If you need full root access to machine with 4318 running > wireless-testing, just mail me privately. > > Really hope you will manage to release that soon :) > > -- > RafaÅ? > > _______________________________________________ > b43-dev mailing list > b43-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev > > -- 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
