Wi-Fi Direct in Android JellyBean

Question

I wish to enable the wifi direct in android jelly bean. But the logcat messgaes shows the below error message.

E/WifiHW ( 2460): Unable to open connection to supplicant on "/data/misc/wifi/sockets/p2p0": No such file or directory

I googled to find out the exact reason for this message.But could not find any.

Could anyone please share why this error occuring?

Answer 1

It looks like the wpa_supplicant on your device is built without P2P support.
Check if CONFIG_P2P is enabled in it's android.config file.