Observations when testing on PlasmaCloud PA1200

[ilario]

We tested LibreMesh compiled on OpenWrt 22.03 during BattleMesh v15 in 2023 observing various unexpected behaviours, see #1059
The network profiles that were finally used with these devices are the "outdoor" ones described here:
https://github.com/libremesh/network-profiles/tree/master/calafou

Now, I asked a PlasmaCloud PA1200 to @pedro-nonfree for testing again.

A few interesting observations, so far:

• a non-existing eth0 interface gets configured, while the existing ethernet1 interface stays down (in the lime-report below, you can see how ethernet1 is down even if it was physically connected to my laptop, so I had to connect via wifi) which is likely related to Consider new interface names #1132
• a lot of shared-state-async error messages are visible, see Error messages from shared-state-async #1150 @G10h4ck @javierbrk
• mesh is working, even if I forgot to replace ath10k-ct with ath10k (CandelaTech drivers are recommended for AP but not for mesh).
• For some reason, iwinfo indicates that the mesh is WPA3 encrypted while it is not. But this happens on other devices when wpad-mesh-openssl is present (also on the YouHua WR1200JS).

Here you can see the output of lime-report when LibreMesh is installed (I included also the commit from these pull requests: #1139 #1143 #1145 #1147 #1148 #1149

lime-report-20241206-PA1200-libremesh.txt

And here the output of lime-report when installing a clean OpenWrt 23.05.5:

lime-report-20241206-PA1200-clean_openwrt.txt