wpa_supplicant 2.4/2.5 issue with some Intel chipsets

[Jouni Malinen]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 04:07:58PM +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> While I am not personally experiencing any issues with wpa_supplicant
> 2.5 (not using an Intel wifi card though), we have had several people
> reporting connection issues downstream in Arch Linux.
> 
> It appears to be related to the creation and/or usage of P2P management
> interfaces on some Intel chipsets. (Pardon any wrong terminology, I am
> not familiar with the wireless stack.)
> 
> A common error message appears to be:
> 
>   Could not read interface p2p-dev-wlp2s0 flags: No such device
> 
> As seen in this report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47428

Is there any detailed debug log for this type of issue? The -B on the
command line hides most of debug and for number of the details, more
verbosity would be needed. In other words "-B" should be replaced with
"-d" to get some useful messages..

I tried to find something useful from the ArchLinux bug reports, but
they seemed to be just providing minimal information from wpa_supplicant
and point to other bugs that more or less all had been closed as
duplicates of eachother.. There was no wpa_supplicant debug log that I
could find or any clear indication that this would be a wpa_supplicant
issue rather than something with netctl (or whatever configures and
launches wpa_supplicant here).

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA