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Old 30th December 2011
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media:IEEE802.11 autoselect (autoselect mode 11g)
This line from your ifconfig output suggests the interface is not running in AP mode; if it was I think the word "hostap" would appear on this line. It is probably in managed mode (the default) and is looking for an access point, is not finding one with the given network ID, and so ... no network.

To get it into hostap mode you could either reboot so that the /etc/hostname.wpi0 file will take effect. Or to do it before rebooting, just issue an ifconfig command to update to the desired mode:

# ifconfig wpi0 media autoselect mediaopt hostap

Hope that helps.

Correction: My comments above assumed that the wpi(4) driver supports hostap mode. A look at the man page indicates it doesn't. Oh well, sorry about that.

For the dmesg output, perhaps you could direct it to a file and upload that?

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