Configuring a wireless access point

[Serge]

Was going to post this on BSD forums, but apparently the grass is greener here

I'm trying to turn an old desktop into a server/router/WAP (has an atheros PCI card) mostly for educational purposes and I've been following this guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/...RK-WIRELESS-AP

and I got all the daemons configured and running and the access point shows up on a scan but I can't get a station to connect to it.

I turned on the debug output:

# wlandebug -i ath0 +scan+auth+debug+assoc

and when I try to connect a station (MAC: 00:15:af:XX:XX:XX, OS: vista) vista provides an informative "Cannot connect to FreeBSDAP" and this gets printed on the BSD box:

...
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] recv probe req
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] recv probe req
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] recv probe req
ath0: received auth from 00:15:af:XX:XX:XX rssi 54
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] recv auth frame with algorithm 0 seq 1
[00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] send auth on channel 1
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] station authenticated (open)
ath0: received assoc_req from 00:15:af:XX:XX:XX rssi 52
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] WPA ie: mc 1/16 uc 1/13 key 2 caps 0x0
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] station associated at aid 1: short preamble, short slot time
[00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] send assoc_resp on channel 1
ath0: received disassoc from 00:15:af:XX:XX:XX rssi 52
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] recv disassociate (reason 8)
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] station with aid 1 leaves
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] recv probe req
ath0: [00:15:af:XX:XX:XX] recv probe req
...

Particularly, what is this "recv disassociate (reason 8)" deal?

I'm sure I entered the correct pass phrase, here's the interesting config stuff:

$ uname -a
FreeBSD basement.gateway.2wire.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

$ cat /etc/rc.conf
...
ifconfig_ath0="inet 192.168.111.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid FreeBSDAP mode 11g mediaopt hostap"
hostapd_enable="YES"
named_enable="YES"
dhcpd_enable="YES"
dhcpd_ifaces="sis0 ath0"
...

$ cat /etc/hostapd.conf
interface=ath0
driver=bsd

# Logging and debug configs
logger_syslog=1
logger_syslog_level=0
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=0
debug=3
dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump

ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

# IEEE 802.11
ssid=FreeBSDAP
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1

# IEEE 802.1X - not using
ieee8021x=0

# IEEE 802.11i (WPA)
wpa=1
wpa_passphrase=freebsdmall
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=CCMP TKIP

$ ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:0d:88:XX:XX:XX
        inet 192.168.111.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: associated
        ssid FreeBSDAP channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:0d:88:XX:XX:XX
        authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 31.5
        scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7
        roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 11

$ kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    7 0xc0400000 906518   kernel
 2    1 0xc0d07000 1bdc     wlan_xauth.ko
 3    1 0xc0d09000 2ec0     wlan_acl.ko
 4    1 0xc0d0c000 6a32c    acpi.ko

$ cat /boot/loader.conf
wlan_xauth_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_acl_load="YES"

Any ideas?