Problems with hostapd at hostap drivers

[Tomek Lorek]

Hi there,
Could you please help me with my problem? I'm trying to set up a nice
wlan but unfortunately, despite log says a lot of nice stuff my
network ssid is not seen at all by other computers.

# hostapd -ddK /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 19
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx and ssid 'TomekAPx'
SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=8):
     54 6f 6d 65 6b 41 50 78                           TomekAPx
PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=13):
     71 77 65 72 74 79 31 32 33 34 35 36 37            qwerty1234567
PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump(len=32): 4c 81 2a 67 92 14 af f0 ac cf
66 b2 38 7d 1f 2a 16 7e 0c aa e8 4c 6b 92 92 92 b0 58 17 fc bb 55
WPA: group state machine entering state GTK_INIT
GMK - hexdump(len=32): 49 ad 28 29 e7 4b bb 43 9e 61 43 b7 51 2b de 56
ce a5 8e 4c ec cb 6e 29 18 77 cb 73 cf fd 4a d6
GTK - hexdump(len=32): 6b 1f d6 ad e1 2b 5a ca 37 2c 88 a4 1c 06 66 fb
d2 c3 b0 c4 d0 6b e4 62 af f7 28 96 6b eb 8d c3
WPA: group state machine entering state SETKEYSDONE
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=21 WE(source)=18 enc_capa=0xf
RATE[0] rate=10 flags=0x42
RATE[1] rate=20 flags=0x42
RATE[2] rate=55 flags=0x40
RATE[3] rate=110 flags=0x40
Could not set passive scanning: Unknown error 4294967295
Flushing old station entries
Deauthenticate all stations

After that my wlan settings look poor:
# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: None
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: None
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-73 dBm  Noise level=-73 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:19   Missed beacon:0

wlan0ap   IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point:
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

If I use iwconfig and set the parameters one by one by hand it works
perfectly. Do you have any clue what may be wrong? The wifi card is
based on the prism2.5 chipset.

Best regards,
Tom