[Server-devel] serious Raspbian WiFi flaw discovered: works for 10SEC then cycles OFF/ON

[Adam Holt]

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> We need to report this to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to see if they can
> fix it -- WiFi connections are repeatedly failing, sometimes even very soon
> after booting, profoundly affecting Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 !
>
> But first a big Thanks In Advance to all who can reproduce this & offer
> your own experiences/perspectives prior to Thursday's [*] call:
>
>    http://minutes.iiab.io
>
> Here are 2 (known) ways to reproduce the WiFi bug with near certainty:
>
>    https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/638#issuecomment-354639673
>

CLARIF: I do *not* mean to blame Raspbian, as we seek a solution here!!

At this this point it's entirely possible the underlying/root cause is
dhcpcd...and/or even RPi3 firmware / WiFi module etc?

*[*] we might possibly adjust the time/day of Thursday's 10AM EST call
> given Tim's upcoming trip.*
>
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