Bluetooth and wifi don't work after upgrade of Sony Vaio PCG SRX51P/B from Jaunty to Karmic

Has anyone got any ideas how to test this and/or if there is a fix pending anywhere?

Thanks.

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I have just done a fresh install of Lucid on this machine. Wifi is still problematic. I posted Bug 532829, but perhaps I should just have continued with this one. Anyway I will do apport-collect in a moment or two. Sorry for the delay!

apport-colelct failed with a "HTTP Error 412: Precondition Failed" :-(

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I put a fresh install of Lucid on the machine and the wifi and bluetooth failed to work. So clearly modern Linux kernels are not managing the Sony add-in (Sony Programmable I/O Controller -- SPIC) of the past that dealt with wifi and bluetooth. I guess the code has been removed as it used to work.

Sadly the machine can only take a maximum of 384MB of main memory, whilst operating systems these days seem to require 1GB or more to operate. With Lucid the machine was more or less unusable due to swapping -- especially apparent when using Unison, so I have had to retire it. This is a great shame as its sound card is far superior to anything that gets put into modern laptops, but that is a rant for a different forum.