# Ad-hoc networking possibilities

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/530/ad-hoc-networking-possibilities
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2021-10-29 09:42:47 UTC by Umut John
Replies: 2 · Views: 652

## Umut John · 2021-10-29 09:42:47 UTC

Dear all,

We are working on an autonomous network topology maintenance scenario where the nodes (i.e., drones) should be interconnected through the Wi-Fi ad-hoc mode. We are having the same issue as Yuezhan mentioned here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/other/documentation/-/issues/23. I see that there is no native support for this on VOXL, but is there any way or a workaround that lets us use Wi-Fi in ad-hoc mode? If not, can Bluetooth (e.g., forming piconets) be useful in this case? Any bit of help would be awesome!

Many thanks,

Umut

## Reply by Umut John · 2021-11-01 22:20:32 UTC

@Umut-Can-Çabuk It is possible to set the wlan0 to "ad-hoc mode", but channel allocation can't be done apparently. Any help would be highly appreciated.

## Reply by Chad Sweet (ModalAI staff) · 2021-11-02 22:50:44 UTC

I'm sorry, we do not have any experience with ad-hoc mode. You could try an external wifi module that supports this. If you need to rebuild the kernel, the source code is [here](https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/system-image-build/voxl-build)