Wifi Mesh Setup using Dynalink DL-WRX36 Askey RT5010W IPQ8072A

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello OpenWrt Experts,

I am trying to setup a WiFi mesh with the following.

  1. Main Router R7800 running (OpenWrt 22.03.5 r20134-5f15225c1e / LuCI openwrt-22.03 branch git-23.119.80898-65ef406)
  2. Two Mesh points wanting to connect as AP to the main router
    1. Dynalink DL-WRX36 running (OpenWrt 23.05.0-rc3 r23389-5deed175a5 / LuCI openwrt-23.05 branch git-23.219.80063-bece581)
    2. Dynalink DL-WRX36 running (OpenWrt 23.05.0-rc3 r23389-5deed175a5 / LuCI openwrt-23.05 branch git-23.219.80063-bece581)

Here is the link for output of the following commands

iw -list from all three routers

R7800: R7800-iw-list.txt
#1 DL-WRX36:WRX36-1-iw-list.txt
#2 DL-WRX36:WRX36-2-iw-list.txt

uci export network from all three routers

R7800: R7800-network.txt
#1 DL-WRX36:WRX36-1-network.txt
#2 DL-WRX36:WRX36-2-network.txt

uci export wireless from all three routers

R7800: R7800-wireless.txt
#1 DL-WRX36:WRX36-1-wireless.txt
#2 DL-WRX36:WRX36-2-wireless.txt

mesh11sd status from all three routers

R7800: R7800-mesh11sd-status.txt
#1 DL-WRX36:WRX36-1-mesh11sd-status.txt
#2 DL-WRX36:WRX36-2-mesh11sd-status.txt

Note: Both Dynalink DL-WRX36 are running in AP mode. All settings are made to function in AP mode before attempting to add to the WiFi mesh.

The mesh MY-MESH is setup on 5GHz currently. I have tried 2.4 GHz as well. None of them connect to DL-WRX36. Tried without encryption as well.

The Associated Stations on both DL-WRX36 have none added. If it had worked the R7800 MY-MESH should have shown up. But it did not!

Appreciate your help to get this working.

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Here is the list of ath* modules on the routers.

R7800:

/lib/modules/5.10.176# ls -alt ath*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         26168 Apr 27 13:28 ath.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        553856 Apr 27 13:28 ath10k_core.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         58132 Apr 27 13:28 ath10k_pci.ko

DL-WRX36

/lib/modules/5.15.127# ls -alt ath*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         37304 Aug 19 07:01 ath.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        751104 Aug 19 07:01 ath11k.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         27840 Aug 19 07:01 ath11k_ahb.ko

So obviously there is a kernel and driver differences. Would that have an impact?
I am not ready to upgrade R7800 to 23.05.0-rc3 as there are known WiFi performance issue. So don't want to interrupt my daily normal functionality!