[PLUG] Sony Vaio Will Not See eth0 (Rich Shepard)

[Mike Connors]

>
> Mike,
>
>   Try this reason on for size: the distribution was released in April 2011
> with the 2.6.37.6 kernel, and the laptop was assembled and shipped November
> 2011. It is almost certain that the Atheros Comm. Ethernet chip is newer
> than the driver in the kernel. That's what someone discovered on
> linuxquestions.org with the same chip and an 'older' kernel. The laptop
> shipped with some flavor of Windoze, as they all do. Ergo, it's quite
> reasonable to assume the hardware works with a current driver.
>
>   This weekend I'll build a 2.6.28 kernel using the SlackBuild script from
> the 13.37 distribution, run 'mkinitrd', edit /etc/lilo.conf, and run
> '/sbin/lilo' before rebooting. Heck, I might even try the 3.x kernel.
>
> Rich
>

Ya' know, when I initially wrote my response, I typed "well, it's either
that or you have a seriously buggy driver."
Because my distro of choice is Debian, I don't think I've ever had a wifi
card on a laptop/netbook work out of the box.
Best of luck with getting it sorted out.