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lgtegetege

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From: Rosales

Registered: 2020-11-08

Posts: 38

wpa supplicant kernel reports: Attribute failed policy validation

Hello, journalctl is showing me this issue

Nov 19 23:23:50 lgtegetege wpa_supplicant[691]: nl80211: kernel reports: Attribute failed policy validation
Nov 19 23:23:50 lgtegetege wpa_supplicant[691]: Failed to create interface p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3: -22 (Invalid argument)
Nov 19 23:23:50 lgtegetege wpa_supplicant[691]: nl80211: Failed to create a P2P Device interface p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3

i think i have seen other posts with this issue in the past but i would like to know which is the best way to solve this.
hope somebody can help me, thanks in advance

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: wpa supplicant kernel reports: Attribute failed policy validation

What's the issue? Not all cards support a p2p interface so wpa_supplicants request to create one will fail, that doesn't necessarily mean any actable issue.