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I want to set up a wifi direct connection between my phone and my pi3. I followed this post Connect to Raspberry PI 3 over Wi-Fi direct hoping i would be at least able to see my phones open wifi direct connection, but the wpa_supplicant wont start, reporting either 

Could not read interface p2p-dev-wlan0 flags: No such device

or

Failed to create interface p2p-dev-wlan0: -16 (Device or resource busy)

iw list tells me

* P2P-client     
* P2P-GO     
* P2P-device

are all available, which is of no suprise since most tech spec descriptions of the pi3 list wifi direct capabilities...

in my search for answers I stumbled across some people saying "it's a wpa_supplicant 2.5 bug, downgrade your wpa_supplicant" but im no able to find a arm version of the wpa_supplicant 2.3 anywhere. I did find some 2.3 packages in the Archlinux Rollback Machine, but pacman dismissed those as "wrong architecture".

Anyone got any ideas how to solve this?

ps: i got raspbian installed on another sd-card, almost the same problem

edit: Raspbian got wpa_supplicant 2.3, I started the wpa_supplicant with these configs

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
device_name=PI
update_config=1

(just like Van Coding in his post) The wpa_supplicant started, but p2p_find and p2p_listen wouldn't produce any results at all. Extended debug informations revealed 

nl80211: Do not indicate P2P_DEVICE support (p2p_device=1 driver param not specified)

so I added 

driver_param=p2p_device=1

to the params, which, in turn, lead to 

Failed to create interface p2p-dev-wlan0: -16 (Device or resource busy)
nl80211: Failed to create a P2P Device interface p2p-dev-wlan0
P2P: Failed to create P2P Device interface

again, Indicating some other problem than a faulty wpa_supplicant release

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Vincent Märkl
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I had the same problem. Then I found that a wpa_supplicant process was already started at boot time to connect to public WIFI. This is why there is the "resource busy" error message. I did a sudo killall wpa_supplicant and retried my wpa_supplicant command, and it worked. Hope this helps.

Pomin Wu
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I also have alarm on the RPi3 and followed this wiki to establish a wireless connection. I used netctl (installed by default on alarm), but there's a lot of other options.

Then I followed the netctl wiki instructions.

Hope it works for you.

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I had the same problem, What I did was download the source for wpa_supplicant from their website wpa_supplicant source for arm. they have instructions on that site for building it as well. making it failed a bunch of times for me because I was missing dependencies like libssl-dev, libncurses-dev and libreadline-dev so after I got that squared away the errors went away, but it still wouldn't connect until after I rebooted, then everything worked.

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