# ALFA radios failing to communicate in adhoc

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/3673/alfa-radios-failing-to-communicate-in-adhoc
Category: Development Drones (https://forum.modalai.com/category/44/development-drones)
Tags: starling
Posted: 2024-07-24 21:25:47 UTC by myshkin
Replies: 0 · Views: 269

## myshkin · 2024-07-24 21:25:47 UTC

Hello,

I am having trouble communicating between drones in Adhoc mode with the included ALFA WiFi dongle (AWUS036EACS). Has anyone been able to get this to work?

Configuring the ALFA in any which way (iw, wpa_supplicant, etc...) results in the same thing: configure two drones and each radio gives the impression it has successfully switched to IBSS, both share the same cell ID and ESSID.  Despite this, they cannot ping. I've verified the configuration methods I am using are working on another set of radios that I have.