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P2P howto

prerequisites

In order to test P2P, you need:

  • a current wireless-testing kernel (or compat-wireless equivalent) or kernel 3.0 later
  • wpa_supplicant from the hostap git tree:
git clone git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap.git

, or possibly from the hostap-1 stabilisation tree

  • an Atheros ath9k device
  • OR an ar9170 USB device (with carl9170 driver!)
  • (OR another device that has a mac80211 driver, but these are known to work, iwlwifi does not currently work with any released microcode)

wpa_supplicant

Use this config file for compiling:

CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y
# optional, depending on libnl version you want to use:
# CONFIG_LIBNL20=y

CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE=y
CONFIG_WPS=y
CONFIG_WPS2=y
CONFIG_P2P=y
CONFIG_AP=y

# and maybe DBus

running

Start wpa_supplicant with this config file:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=1

device_name=my-device-name
device_type=1-0050F204-1

# If you need to modify the group owner intent, 0-15, the higher
# number indicates preference to become the GO. You can also set
# this on p2p_connect commands.
#p2p_go_intent=15

# optional, can be useful for monitoring, forces
# wpa_supplicant to use only channel 1 rather than
# 1, 6 and 11:
#p2p_listen_reg_class=81
#p2p_listen_channel=1
#p2p_oper_reg_class=81
#p2p_oper_channel=1

like this:

./wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -c /path/to/p2p.conf -i wlan0 -dt

Then start

./wpa_cli

and use the various

p2p_*

commands, for example:

p2p_find
[wait for peer to be found]
p2p_connect <peer-mac-addr> pbc go_intent=<0..15>

(or you can use pin of course, go_intent is optional.)

using multiple virtual interfaces for concurrent usage

If the driver advertises support, wpa_supplicant will automatically create secondary P2P interfaces. To force this without the driver advertising support, you can add the following to the config file:

driver_param=use_p2p_group_interface=1

When this is added, start the supplicant normally on wlan0 like above. Then, when P2P negotiation finishes, it will create a new interface for the group (called “p2p-wlan0-0”) and put it into the appropriate mode (GO or P2P client).

en/developers/p2p/howto.txt · Last modified: 2015/01/26 09:49 (external edit)