Wifi P2P wpa_supplicant - failed to create p2p device interface
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Does your wifi device support p2p-client/p2p-go interfaces? You can check under interfaces by doing "iw list"
Supported interface modes:
* IBSS
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
* P2P-client
* P2P-GO
* P2P-device
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Giacomo
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Giacomo over 1 year
I'm trying to configure wifi p2p connection with ubuntu, but I have some issues. In particular I followed this guide and this one
Almost everything seems ok, but when I lunch the command:
sudo ./wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/p2p.conf -Dnl80211 -ddt
I get this error:
1442591346.069280: nl80211: Set wlan0 operstate 0->0 (DORMANT) 1442591346.069563: netlink: Operstate: ifindex=4 linkmode=-1 (no change), operstate=5 (IF_OPER_DORMANT) 1442591346.069901: nl80211: Create interface iftype 10 (P2P_DEVICE) 1442591347.591372: Failed to create interface p2p-dev-wlan0: -5 (Input/output error) 1442591347.592233: nl80211: Failed to create a P2P Device interface p2p-dev-wlan0 1442591347.593031: P2P: Failed to create P2P Device interface 1442591347.593754: P2P: Failed to enable P2P Device interface 1442591347.594689: EAPOL: disable timer tick 1442591347.595501: random: Got 20/20 bytes from /dev/random
After that, if I open anyway another shell and I type
sudo ./wpa_cli -i wlan0
the session seems to start correctly, but when I try to use p2p commands, they fail:
wpa_cli v2.4 Copyright (c) 2004-2015, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]> and contributors This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license. See README for more details. Interactive mode > p2p_find FAIL
Someone can help me? I'm using a WANDBOARD quad device with Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. I can't figure out why P2P interface cannot be created. Thank you.