Mesh11sd invalid MAC address

[routersloth]

I set up two identical routers (Xiaomi AX3200) with OpenWrt 23.05.02 and mesh11sd v.3.beta.

Router 1 has an upstream link to my ISP and mesh11sd is working fine.
Router 2 is supposed to form a mesh with Router 1 and also act as an AP.
Autoconfiguration for mesh11sd is turned off.

Problem: The wireless interface m-11-s0 does not come up.
logread gives me this message (MACs redacted:

daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[1392]: Failed to create device m-11s-0: Invalid input data or parameter: attribute `mac` has invalid value `ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:43ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:44`: invalid MAC address

formatted this is:

ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:41 <-- MAC of ports
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:43 <-- MAC of the 5Ghz Wifi
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:44 <-- the MAC I set for the wireless interface (driver default is undefined) 

So the question ist why mesh11sd would think that long string of MACs is the correct interface MAC?

Happy to provide more info if needed.

[bluewavenet]

@routersloth

mesh11sd v.3.beta.

This is an unreleased work in progress with a snapshot available on github, not intended for anything other than use in testing and there is no guarantee that any particular snapshot beta will work.

If you are interested in testing in the lead up to the new release, let me know, otherwise I recommend using the stable version installed by:

opkg update
opkg install mesh11sd

[routersloth]

You are, of course, correct. v2 works without problems.
And yes, I would be happy to help you test the new release. Drop me a PM.