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

[Peter Robinson]

>> 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
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> CLARIF: I do *not* mean to blame Raspbian, as we seek a solution here!!
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> At this this point it's entirely possible the underlying/root cause is
> dhcpcd...and/or even RPi3 firmware / WiFi module etc?

Is it reproducible with upstream kernel/firmware on something like an
up to date Fedora install, there was some new firmware pushed upstream
that fixed some CVEs in the Broadcom firmware (CVE-2016-0801,
CVE-2017-0561, CVE-2017-9417), I'm not sure which firmware's were
affected/updated but it might be worth checking to see if it's fixed
on other distros that are closer to upstream.

Peter