[LEDE-DEV] wifi direct / wifi p2p

[Karl Pálsson]

To follow up on this...

if you install _only_ the wpa-supplicant-p2p package, you can get this to work.  (If you install the wpad-full, you cannot, as the multicall binary portion only has the wpad portions running, and the p2p portions are only ever in the supplicant portions)

However.... none of the standard openwrt wireless tools will work.  You can't use luci to browse for nearby APs and connect, you can't use any of the uci config to to setup AP mode, even though the wpa-supplicant alone can do that.  You can't configure dhcp offers on the p2p-go interface either.

So, while you _can_ kinda sorta get it working, it's basically terrible and worthless.  Further, despite claims that "legacy" devices will see p2p GO as "just another AP", they don't.  The user experience for a phone/laptop user, even after setting it all all up manually with static wpa_supplicant conf files and all the interactive commands required, is just terrible.

I'm going to hope that the new DPP replacement/upgrade for p2p/wifi direct actually one day works, and just keep on working around the landmines with traditional AP+STA configurations.

Sincerely,
Karl Palsson