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I am an Ubuntu newbie. I have a HP DM1 laptop with Ralink RT5390 wifi card. It has the ability to connect on wifi direct with my Nexus 7 in Windows while using latest drivers located at Mediatek site. But I am unable to use wifi direct in Ubuntu. I found wpa2_supplicant supports this and installed the same, but still wifi direct is not functioning.

Can anyone help?

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You have to compile and install wpa_supplicant (see http://www.ab9il.net/linuxwireless/wpa_supplicant.html) and before compiling edit the ".config" file as in http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/p2p/howto .

Now use wpa_cli commands (see http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OMAP_Wireless_Connectivity_NLCP_WiFi_Direct_Configuration_Scripts and http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser/src/router/hostapd-wps/wpa_supplicant/README-P2P?rev=16495)

Hope it helps

EDIT: If you get errors in Ubuntu 14.04 during the compile like: fatal error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. and fatal error: netlink/genl/genl.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated you may need to install libnl1, libssl-dev and libnl-dev. Use the following command to install them

sudo apt-get install libnl1 libssl-dev libnl-dev

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    wpa_supplicant v1.1 and above(v2.0) supports wifi direct
    – cgv
    Jul 4, 2013 at 7:57
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    When will the Ubuntu NetworkManager applet support it?
    – NoBugs
    Feb 9, 2014 at 3:30
  • Wifi-Direct on NetworkManager - Gnome.org WIKI: wiki.gnome.org/NetworkManager/WifiDirect
    – Meetai.com
    Jan 2, 2019 at 0:35
  • @Meetai.com: The GitHub of that project says "This is an experimental implementation of Wi-Fi Display (aka Miracast)."
    – Nicolas Raoul
    Aug 29, 2019 at 7:45

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