I don't have any clue about mesh. But I would start with:
Is mesh encryption running as intended if you are using WPA2?
If the answer is yes then I would assume that WPA3 in combination with a mesh is not supported yet. I would expect that because mesh technology is older then WPA3 and WPA3 support in OpenWrt (or in general) is quite new.
Within the Luci interface, all variables of WPA2 is tagged as incompatible. In the dropdown box, I have 9 options of encryption and "no encryption". Only 2 is accepted, "no ecncription" and WPA3-SAE.
Block single peer from meshing
This may require the iw-full package! Block a peer from meshing using its MAC address
iw dev $MESH_IFACE station set $MAC_TO_BLOCK plink_action block
Verify using section above (iw dev $MESH_IFACE station dump)
mesh plink: BLOCKED
Unblock:
iw dev $MESH_IFACE station set $MAC_TO_UNBLOCK plink_action open
according to this source plink_action is not persisted across reconnects of mesh links.
So it might be your station is blocked on master? I have really no clue. Just guessing.
I think I found it. While testing on another wireless card, I get this
root@linux:/home/george# iw list | grep "Supported Ciphers" -A 6
Supported Ciphers:
* WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1)
* WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5)
* TKIP (00-0f-ac:2)
* CCMP-128 (00-0f-ac:4)
While doing the same command on the mesh device I'm tring to setup, I get this
root@OpenWrt:~# iw list | grep "Supported Ciphers" -A 6
root@OpenWrt:~#
Nothing! Looks like
Wavlink WL-WN570HA1
Chip set
MediaTek MT7610E
does not support encryption.
I appoligize for the waist of time this occured. I should of looked it to this to beggin with.
Thanks for your help.
Ah O.K. That makes sense for a simple repeater. So mark this thread as solved so that others will not have a look into this what we have produced in this thread. xD