Hi Diego,

> However, “ip link show dev wlan0" shows “NO-CARRIER” on both devices 
> with state DORMANT and mode DORMANT.
> 
> 5: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq 
> state DORMANT mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
> 
>      link/ether 34:e1:2d:24:03:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 
> When doing it manually with iw the state was UP and the mode DEFAULT, so 
> I manually changed the state with “ip link set wlan0 state up". After 
> that “ip link” no longer shows NO-CARRIER and pings worked. Changing the 
> mode was not necessary.
> 
> Is there something that I am missing? Or maybe something which is 
> missing in iwd in adhoc mode?

This is indeed a bug in iwd.  We somehow missed sending the required 
linkmode / operstate changes when adhoc is operated in the 'open' mode. 
i.e. a call to l_rtnl_set_linkmode_and_operstate is missing in 
src/adhoc.c adhoc_new_station() around line 415.

The tricky part is that adhoc doesn't initialize its own rtnl object, so 
I need to think about a good fix for this.

Regards,
-Denis