MAC controller error (WTERR). Ignoring.

Hi,

after succesfully testing cipe at my wired lan with eepro100 nics I
started configuring cipe for the purpose which it was planned for:

At my laptop on an original orinocco gold pcmcia nic.
The kernel is a 2.6.5, gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-6sarge1)

Compiling and modprobing afterwards works like a charm, but the daemon
does not work.

There is no error shown by cipe:

	cipcb: CIPE driver vers 1.6.0 (c) Olaf Titz 1996-2003, 100 \
	channels, debug=1
	cipcb: cipe_alloc_dev 0

The only thing that might be the cause is:

	orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=c2617000)
	eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
	eth1: MAC controller error (WTERR). Ignoring.

ifconfig cipcb0 shows:

	cipcb0  Link encap:IPIP Tunnel  HWaddr
		POINTOPOINT NOARP  MTU:1418  Metric:1
		RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
		TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
		collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
		RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

manually ifconfiging cipcb0 works, but ifconfig cipcb0 up shows:

	SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device or address
	
	...

	cipcb0  Link encap:IPIP Tunnel  HWaddr
		inet addr:172.16.2.200  P-t-P:172.16.2.200  Mask:255.255.255.0
		POINTOPOINT NOARP  MTU:1418  Metric:1
		RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
		TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
		collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
		RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

But eth1 has a MAC though:

	eth1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr **:**:**:**:**:**  
		inet addr:172.16.1.200  Bcast:172.16.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
		UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
		RX packets:139277 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
		TX packets:1253228 errors:31 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
		collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
		RX bytes:120994667 (115.3 MiB)  TX bytes:1804520874 (1.6 GiB)
		Interrupt:3 Base address:0x140

		( HWaddr censored for obvious reasons :-)

If the orinocco pcmcia-card support by Wireless LAN, Hermes PCMCIA card
support has difficulties to report the MAC, can I tell the cipe daemon
the MAC manually?

cu
Sascha


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