HTC Hero cannot get an address from an ath5k AP

[Simon Farnsworth <simon@farnz.org.uk>]

Hello,

I've recently acquired a HTC Hero, and thought I'd try and use it with my 
ath5k based AP. It doesn't work, and I'm at a loss to debug it.

The only hint I have is that neither of my (Linux-based) laptops can hold 
association to the AP without traffic flowing continuously, which leads me 
to suspect power saving issues.

My hostapd configuration file is attached; I've checked that I've used the 
correct WEP key. I can provide any more information that's needed. My 
controller appears in lspci as:

02:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. 
AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)

and in dmesg as:

[572338.589520] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa5, PHY: 0x61)

I have:

CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m
CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_ATH5K=m
CONFIG_ATH5K_DEBUG=y

set in my .config, and have debugfs available.
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Any help will be gratefully received,

Simon Farnsworth