No SSID after switching to AP mode

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi all. I recently attempted to use Hostap, along with the Ath5k driver to put
my AR5212-based card into AP mode, after having used Madwifi for quite some
time. However, I am running into a rather interesting problem. After Hostap puts
my device into Master mode, and I run Iwconfig wlan0, there appears to be no
SSID set, even though I have one specified in Hostap.conf. Here is output from
both Hostap and Iwconfig:
Configuration file: /etc/hostap.conf
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 00:15:6d:54:1f:db and ssid 'bla123'

At this point, I know I should have an SSID of bla123 set, but this is not so:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  Mode:Master  Frequency:2.417 GHz  Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:C454-E1BA-C142-215F-5CE4-3FA0-8BE6-99CC [3]
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I thought that possibly the SSID could be getting sent regardless of what
Iwconfig output in the beacon frames; however, none of the other wireless
clients I have access to here (second laptop, IPhone, etc) could find my
access point. Does anyone have any pointers as to where I should look, to
attempt to figure out why no SSID is being set as part of the initialization
process? Hostap itself manages to notice that an SSID is present though:

PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=8):
     74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 61                           testinga
PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump(len=32): 6b ce 37 2a 3a 7b 4d d1 ad 49 19 37 74
ce c4 3e a4 0c 20 81 89 c6 ca a8 e9 60 24 cd c3 97 2b 45
WPA: group state machine entering state GTK_INIT (VLAN-ID 0)
GMK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED]
GTK - hexdump(len=16): [REMOVED]
WPA: group state machine entering state SETKEYSDONE (VLAN-ID 0)
nl_set_encr: ifindex=40 alg=3 addr=(nil) key_idx=1 set_tx=1 seq_len=0
key_len=16nl80211: Set beacon (beacon_set=0)
wlan0: Setup of interface done.
MGMT (TX callback) ACK
MGMT (TX callback) ACK
mgmt::proberesp cb
MGMT (TX callback) ACK
mgmt::proberesp cb

Here is my hostap.conf:
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=bla123
hw_mode=g
channel=2
logger_syslog=0
logger_syslog_level=0
logger_stdout=1
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=testpassword
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
wpa_group_rekey=600

I am using a 2.6.31.4 kernel, LibNL-2.0 from GGit, and Hostap pulled up to
commit 08d38568df4b5c36997c5b2615064979fb89b16f. Thanks!
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Igor
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