Mesh on TP-Link RE450v1 does not work [Closed]

Dear friends,

The RE450 should support mesh:

iw list | grep "Supported interface modes" -A 9

	Supported interface modes:
		 * IBSS
		 * managed
		 * AP
		 * AP/VLAN
		 * monitor
		 * mesh point
		 * P2P-client
		 * P2P-GO
		 * outside context of a BSS
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	Supported interface modes:
		 * IBSS
		 * managed
		 * AP
		 * monitor
		 * mesh point
		 * P2P-client
		 * P2P-GO
		 * P2P-device
	Band 2:

Any idea?

Sorry the interface is now updated and mesh is available. Strange. So fixed.

Mesh does not show up on the RE450v1.
After restarting network, the /dev/mesh0 interface does not show up and LuCi says "wireless not associated".

On my GLInet B1300 the same configuration works.

Here is my RE-450 configuration for mesh :

config wifi-iface 'mesh0'
       option disabled '0'
       option device 'radio0'
       option ifname 'mesh0'
       option mode 'mesh'
       option mesh_fwding '1'
       option mesh_id 'My Mesh'
       option encryption 'sae'
       option key 'xxx'
       option network 'lan'

opkg list-installed

ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct - 2019-10-03-d622d160-1
base-files - 204.2-r11063-85e04e9f46
busybox - 1.30.1-5
cgi-io - 19
dnsmasq - 2.80-16.1
dropbear - 2019.78-2
firewall - 2019-11-22-8174814a-1
fstools - 2020-05-12-84269037-1
fwtool - 2
getrandom - 2019-06-16-4df34a4d-3
hostapd-common - 2019-08-08-ca8c2bd2-3
ip6tables - 1.8.3-1
iptables - 1.8.3-1
iw - 5.0.1-1
iwinfo - 2019-10-16-07315b6f-1
jshn - 2020-02-27-7da66430-1
jsonfilter - 2018-02-04-c7e938d6-1
kernel - 4.14.180-1-342af9e4f67b3447c53216ab8e3b12a1
kmod-ath - 4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1
kmod-ath10k-ct - 4.14.180+2019-09-09-5e8cd86f-1
kmod-ath9k - 4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1
kmod-ath9k-common - 4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1
kmod-cfg80211 - 4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1
kmod-gpio-button-hotplug - 4.14.180-3
kmod-hwmon-core - 4.14.180-1
kmod-ip6tables - 4.14.180-1
kmod-ipt-conntrack - 4.14.180-1
kmod-ipt-core - 4.14.180-1
kmod-ipt-nat - 4.14.180-1
kmod-ipt-offload - 4.14.180-1
kmod-lib-crc-ccitt - 4.14.180-1
kmod-mac80211 - 4.14.180+4.19.120-1-1
kmod-nf-conntrack - 4.14.180-1
kmod-nf-conntrack6 - 4.14.180-1
kmod-nf-flow - 4.14.180-1
kmod-nf-ipt - 4.14.180-1
kmod-nf-ipt6 - 4.14.180-1
kmod-nf-nat - 4.14.180-1
kmod-nf-reject - 4.14.180-1
kmod-nf-reject6 - 4.14.180-1
kmod-ppp - 4.14.180-1
kmod-pppoe - 4.14.180-1
kmod-pppox - 4.14.180-1
kmod-slhc - 4.14.180-1
libblobmsg-json - 2020-02-27-7da66430-1
libc - 1.1.24-2
libgcc1 - 7.5.0-2
libip4tc2 - 1.8.3-1
libip6tc2 - 1.8.3-1
libiwinfo-lua - 2019-10-16-07315b6f-1
libiwinfo20181126 - 2019-10-16-07315b6f-1
libjson-c2 - 0.12.1-3.1
libjson-script - 2020-02-27-7da66430-1
liblua5.1.5 - 5.1.5-3
liblucihttp-lua - 2019-07-05-a34a17d5-1
liblucihttp0 - 2019-07-05-a34a17d5-1
libncurses6 - 6.1-5
libnl-tiny - 0.1-5
libopenssl1.1 - 1.1.1g-1
libpthread - 1.1.24-2
libubox20191228 - 2020-02-27-7da66430-1
libubus-lua - 2019-12-27-041c9d1c-1
libubus20191227 - 2019-12-27-041c9d1c-1
libuci20130104 - 2019-09-01-415f9e48-3
libuclient20160123 - 2019-05-30-3b3e368d-1
libxtables12 - 1.8.3-1
logd - 2019-06-16-4df34a4d-3
lua - 5.1.5-3
luci - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-app-firewall - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-app-opkg - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-base - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-lib-ip - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-lib-jsonc - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-lib-nixio - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-mod-admin-full - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-mod-network - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-mod-status - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-mod-system - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-proto-ipv6 - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-proto-ppp - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
luci-theme-bootstrap - git-20.136.49537-fb2f363-1
mtd - 24
nano - 4.9.3-1
netifd - 2019-08-05-5e02f944-1
odhcp6c - 2019-01-11-e199804b-16
odhcpd-ipv6only - 2020-05-03-49e4949c-3
openwrt-keyring - 2019-07-25-8080ef34-1
opkg - 2020-05-07-f2166a89-1
ppp - 2.4.7.git-2019-05-25-3
ppp-mod-pppoe - 2.4.7.git-2019-05-25-3
procd - 2020-03-07-09b9bd82-1
rpcd - 2019-12-10-aaa08366-2
rpcd-mod-file - 2019-12-10-aaa08366-2
rpcd-mod-iwinfo - 2019-12-10-aaa08366-2
rpcd-mod-luci - 20191114
rpcd-mod-rrdns - 20170710
swconfig - 12
terminfo - 6.1-5
uboot-envtools - 2018.03-3
ubox - 2019-06-16-4df34a4d-3
ubus - 2019-12-27-041c9d1c-1
ubusd - 2019-12-27-041c9d1c-1
uci - 2019-09-01-415f9e48-3
uclient-fetch - 2019-05-30-3b3e368d-1
uhttpd - 2020-03-13-975dce23-1
urandom-seed - 1.0-1
urngd - 2020-01-21-c7f7b6b6-1
usign - 2019-08-06-5a52b379-1
wireless-regdb - 2019.06.03-1
wpad-mesh-openssl - 2019-08-08-ca8c2bd2-3

Any help appreciated.

Do you think it would change anything if I recompile everything from git HEAD?

Should I drop the RE450 and switch to a modern AP like the GL-B1300 which has plenty of RAM/Flash and does not need to recompile for testing. I am worring that the radios might be too old for good support.

[Edit : I am going to close this issue as I am compiling from head. Head provides the new architectre ath79 and it is better to switch.]

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