How to change network interface used by Android?

When I boot up my Android Device and go to WiFi settings, the status of WiFi remains "Turning Wi-Fi on" forever. I looked it up in logcat logs, and below is the error that I see. E/wpa_supplicant( 1713): nl80211: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP E/wpa_supplicant( 1713): wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface E/wpa_supplicant( 1713): Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device Below is some useful information. root@android:/ # netcfg netcfg lo UP 127.0.0.1/8 0x00000049 00:00:00:00:00:00 gannet0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001082 1e:e9:6e:bf:45:f7 dummy0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000082 ba:ad:f6:ae:6a:09 rmnet0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00 rmnet1 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00 rmnet2 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00 rmnet3 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00 rmnet4 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00 rmnet5 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00 rmnet6 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00 rmnet7 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000001 00:00:00:00:00:00 sit0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000080 00:00:00:00:00:00 ip6tnl0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000080 00:00:00:00:00:00 Contents of /system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf: update_config=1 ctrl_interface=wlan0 eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 **Question**: How can I enable Android to use some other interface other than wlan0? Things tried: 1) I tried to edit ctrl_interface parameter in /system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf using adb pull and adb push to other interfaces shown by netcfg, but Android still tries to use wlan0. 2) I also tried to start wpa_supplicant daemon using the below command. /system/bin/wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -idummy0 -c/system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf but this gives an error. E/wpa_supplicant( 5390): dummy0: Failed to initialize driver interface