I use an external wifi adapter. I also use backtrack in a virtual machine, but I don't think that's the issue.

Basically, when I unplug the modem (usually accidentally), linux will often freeze....

I have a different error:


Nmap: Starting Nmap 5.51SVN ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-08-13 03:12 PDT
Nmap: 'nmap: relocation error: /lib/libnss_files.so.2: symbol __rawmemchr, version...

I'm kinda in the same boat, but with different symptoms.

I'm using the built-in bluetooth (on my macbook pro) which works fine using Parallels and Windows7.

• hciconfig shows the device

•...

Yea, I think we're pretty much hosed. I don't think any of the maintainers have ever paired a bluetooth device with bt5 :-\

I solved #1 by deleting /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

I'm hoping to solve #2 by finding out what wifi-based services are running and to shut them down. Havent' found any yet. Is it...

BT5 has, for me, been a bit of a pain compared to BT4 R1. I'm not going to document every issue, but these two are starting to grate my nerves:

1) For some reason BT5 can't decide if my adapter...

Same issue here (KDE). Apparently a bug was opened, then closed by someone who doesn't think a bug can exist if it didn't occur to him:

Backtrack 5 - Bug #36: Setting up dradis (2.7.0-bt2) ... -...

Hey, I didn't see a forum for web site issues. If there is one please move this thread.

There is obviously a bug in the web site's locale settings. When I use Safari (Mac) it thinks I want chinese...

Hello. I've been trying to find a half decent signal strength indicator for bt5. In bt4 I compiled kwlaninfo which is a bit long in the tooth (but was nearly ideal in that it showed a nice bright...