Wireless problem in vaio vgn-nr120e - S O L V E D

Wireless Problem on Sony Vaio VGN-NR120E - S O L V E D

Finally I can connect to Internet through my wireless on my Vaio laptops I bought on boxing day last year. After googling and following some guides in Ubuntu forum http://ubuntuforums.org/, the problem has been solved.
What I have done to make it work was actually following this link http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhwireless.html#5007 suggested by somebody in the forum (check the forum if you encounter any problem). Here is the summary:
1. Download the madwifi from the link above

2. Install this tool to compile the source code:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

3. Uninstall ndiswrapper or madwifi (if you have installed one of them before). Go to the directory and then do:
sudo make uninstall
sudo make clean

4. Untar the downloaded madwifi file
sudo tar zxvf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007
sudo make
sudo make install
blacklist the restricted driver by System>Administration>Restricted Drivers Manager
sudo modprobe ath_pci (you may need to reboot you system if it gives you error)

5. Configure your wireless connection. I use Wicd to do it (get it from synaptic).
You may need to reboot the system after done.

That's all. Thanks to all contributed members of the forum.

Gusanto
April 09, 2008