[Prism54-users] Prism Nitro XM Support

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:56:59AM +0800, Rodel Miguel wrote:
> Hi,
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> The latest firmware from Conexant doesn't support Nitro XM.  This
> performance enhancement feature is really very important for L2 QoS.  It
> introduces new compression technique, concatenation of multiple small
> packets, piggyback acks (for eliminating redundant messages), packet
> bursting (original Nitro), and direct linking (very good feature for P2P
> communication in a BSS).  Conexant supports this feature in their Soft
> MAC driver, which means, most of the WiFi functionalities are given to
> the host PC.  I'm not sure if Conexant will release a firmware to
> support the features, maybe, the group could talk with the Conexant guys
> to verify this.  If they would not be supporting XM in their firmware,
> maybe we could add this to the prism54 driver's functionality. :p=20

If it's done by the new driver and not the firmware then we should be=20
able to support it. However this may mean we won't be able to support
these features until we write a driver that supports the new firmware
(smaller firmware, which allows for code on the driver).

	Luis

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> Regards,
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> Rodel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis R. Rodriguez [mailto:mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu]=20
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:19 AM
> To: prism54-users@prism54.org
> Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] Prism Nitro XM Support
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> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:27:40PM +0800, Rodel Miguel wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > Has Conexant informed the group about Prism Nitro XM support?  Is this
> a
> > firmware upgrade where we can just "setoid" to enable this feature?
> > Does the group have initiatives to support "soft/thin mac" chipsets?=20
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> > Thank you very much.
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> > Regards,
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> > Rodel Miguel
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> Prism54 supports Nitro. Not sure what Nitro "XM" is. Prism Nitro is
> certainly just a firmware enhancement. If Nitro "XM" is also a firmware
> enhancement then we can support it... we'd just need info on the
> OID(s) to set and what value(s) to set it to.
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> PS: To all other devs: I'm back from vacation and now painting my new
> place. I also started a new job. Sorry for the delay in my responses but
> I've=20
> just been really busy right now. As soon as I get my place painted I
> should be able to start working on the driver again.=20
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> PSS: Feyd: re the USB driver files: you have cvs access, just cvs add *.
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