It worked for me on Fedora Linux, biber 1.8 + biblatex 2.8a. I used the recipe from the same wiki page.
Attaching a working example, might help.
@BOOK{monroe:1955,
title = {{R}adio {O}n},
publisher = {Addison--Wesley},
year = {1955},
author = {Marilyn Monroe},
address = {Los Angeles, CA, USA}
}
MM-biblatex.lyx
Description: application/lyx
