Enable WiFi Sony VGN-NR360 (Hardy 8.04)?

[jjsonp]

I have tried installing MadWifi without luck, and NDISWrapper as well.

Quite probably I did something wrong in both cases, but in any event I can't get WiFi functioning. The power light on the switch doesn't even come on.

Thanks.

[northern lights]

Can you post the output of

sudo lshw -C network

Thank you.

[jjsonp]

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 15
serial: 00:1a:80:b9:0f:84
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.20 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.102 latency=0 link=yes module=sky2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0

When I tried to install MadWiFi I turned off the Atheros Hardware Access Layer if that matters.

[jjsonp]

Bump.

[northern lights]

I tried to install MadWiFi

That's exactly what you need. In Hardy, it should work oob, actually. Do you have 'linux-restricted-modules' installed? If not, do so & retry.

[jjsonp]

Thanks, I will check that when I get home today.

It did not work out of the box...could this be because I am dual-booting? The machine came pre-installed with Vista and I installed Hardy via Wubi.

[northern lights]

It did not work out of the box...could this be because I am dual-booting?

Regular dual booting - no.

I installed Hardy via Wubi

It shouldn't either.
It's standalone after all and not a virtual machine.
It residing on a loopmounted drive should not affect hardware drivers.

Actually, since your wireless is working under Windows it probably would if Wubi was a virtual machine...

[jjsonp]

Correct, not running Ubuntu in a VM.

When I install MadWiFi, do I need to specify the model# of my Atheros card (or chipset?), or will it determine that dynamically?

[northern lights]

Correct, not running Ubuntu in a VM

Had read up on it now

When I install MadWiFi, do I need to specify the model# of my Atheros card (or chipset?), or will it determine that dynamically?

Nope, no manual specification necessary.