wi in hostap mode causes panic near linksys router

Over the past few weeks, I have been experimenting with the wi driver in
hostap mode on a belkin f5d6020 wireless network card.  After about a week,
I had a configuration that worked very well.  I was at home for the
holidays, and then I was out of town, and in both places the hostap mode of
the wi driver worked flawlessly.  Now I am back at school using the exact
same setup, and the system panics after 5-20 or so minutes in the 'idle'
process.  The only difference I can think of is that now I am within range
of another access point (a linksys router) that is sending some sort of
flawed packets.

This is strange because I am using channel 1, and the linksys router is on
channel 6.  I am using 128 bit wep, and the linksys router is not.

I tried changing the wireless card back to the old firmware, and the same
thing happened.

I should also note, that I can connect to the linksys router with the wi
driver and it works great, only in hostap mode does the kernel panic.

Any ideas what is going on here?  I have not had time to set up the
debugging kernel, but I can try it soon if it would be helpful.  Thanks for
your time.

Ben Pfountz

Here is my wi0 post:

wi0: <PRISM2STA WaveLAN> port 0x9400-0x943f,0x9800-0x987f mem
0xe3000000-0xe3000fff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:30:bd:61:97:14
wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 1.04.09

Note: I also tried station firmware 0.08.03, those are the only two I have.

Here is what I use to start the AP:

  /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -s "digitalpimp"
  /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -f 1
  /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -t 2
  /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -e 0
  /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -a 3
  /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -e 1
  /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -k [key] -v 1
  /sbin/ifconfig wi0 up ssid princenet mediaopt hostap

  /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="wi0 fxp0"
  /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.ipfw=1
  /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1
  /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1



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