I have the absolute strangest issue going on and I am hoping someone might be able to help me out.

I have a FiOS connection and I am using their modem/wireless router combo. I have never had a problem with it until trying to use BackTrack5R1 (Ubuntu) to connect to the network.

In Wicd my network pops up just fine and I can connect to it just fine after supplying the key.

Once I open Konqueror and start browsing in about 3 seconds my internet connection shuts off at the router level (the "internet" light goes out) and the wifi drops out (the "wifi" light goes out) and all devices connected to the router are disconnected. The wireless never recovers, nor does the internet. I am forced to reboot the router to restore service.

I absolutely can not understand this problem! Can someone please help me diagnose this??

Thank you in advance!!!

From experience I can tell you that the FiOS provided routers are rather unreliable. I had no end of trouble with mine, and eventually just had to install a secondary router to get the functionality and reliability I was looking for.

I am relatively sure that the router provides a networked logging option in the advanced settings. You could potentially use that to push the log entries out to your computer, which would give you an idea as to what is happening in the moments that lead up to the crash. It would be easier to just check them in the router's web UI, but it sounds like you lose access to that once the lockup occurs.

In addition, have you checked the log files on the Linux machine right before you lose the connection?

It is worth noting that BackTrack makes a lot of modifications to things like the WiFi drivers to make them compatible with things like Aircrack, so it is entirely possible that some BT-specific driver modification is causing an issue with the network. You might find that you have no problem when running a standard Linux distribution.

Thanks MS3FGX.

I did get the problem solved. For whatever reason this Intel wireless adapter + BackTrack's driver + the Verizon router do not play together using WPA or WPA2 encryption. WEP on the other hand works just fine. I've decided to just drop back my router to craptastical WEP for the time being to get by. Going to continue a search for a better driver or workaround that will let me us WPA.