Vincent,
I stepped through to the second item to try and now the conncetion is working. But I'm not sure why. In VAIO smart network the wifi was turned on already. I turned on the wifi direct as well and then tried to open google chrome - nothing happened (it didn't open). So I turned off the wifi direct and rebooted. When the computer cam eback the wifi was working.
Anyway - all is good and I have a working connection.
Thanks,
jbgengr