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Old 27th April 2009
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...and that another program configured the actual hosting part.
Not on OpenBSD. The hostapd tool you were attempting to use has a different purpose:
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DESCRIPTION
hostapd is a daemon which allows communication between different 802.11
wireless access points running in Host AP mode.

hostapd implements the Inter Access Point Protocol (IAPP). Its purpose
is to exchange station association updates between access points in large
wireless networks. IAPP has been designed to speed up roaming between
different access points in the same Extended Service Set (ESS). IAPP is
described in the IEEE 802.11f standard.

hostapd additionally allows the monitoring and logging of station associ-
ations on a non-hostap host which is receiving IAPP messages.....
Sorry things didn't work out for you with this particular hardware configuration. You might still want to post your "freeze" to misc@; it's possible one of the driver developers may have a new fix available or a suggestion. Just post your dmesg and the failing ifconfig command.
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