why download the external firmware

wang dengyi <dy_wang-/[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:01:27 -0700 (PDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.drivers.atmel-wlan
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

The device driver will download the externel firmware
to the usb device when it's probed. My question is why
it do that? If it fails, what happens?

My drivers reports error -32 for the downloading. 

Thanks

Dengyi

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