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I took out my hp mini 1033 CL netbook from its retirement today and installed Ubuntu 13.10 on it to use it during a trip abroad soon.

All seems to be working fine except connecting it to the internet. The network applet shows the empty triangular icon and clicking on it shows Ethernet Network disconnected. No mention of WiFi either. When connecting an ethernet cable to the router, nothing happens. The additional drivers window in 'Software & Updates' is empty, although I expected to see at least Broadcom's STA driver.

'lspci' command produced those 2 relevant lines:

01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller

Is there a way to install necessary drivers without a connection (through a flash drive)? If so, kindly guide me through the steps in a not so technical manner as I'm still a noob.

Thanks.

EDIT: As to @chili555 's comment:

dmesg | grep sky2

results in

[    2.713924] sky2: driver version 1.30
[    2.713998] sky2 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[    2.714180] sky2 0000:02:00.0: unsupported chip type 0xff
[    2.714288] sky2: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -95
[    3.176248] Modules linked in: i915(+) ssb sky2 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper wmi drm video(F)
[    3.195068] Modules linked in: i915(+) ssb sky2 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper wmi drm video(F)
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Your ethernet uses the driver sky2. Please hook up the ethernet and see if the driver loads. Open a terminal and run:

lsmod

Is sky2 listed? If not, load it:

sudo modprobe sky2

Was an interface created, ideally eth0?

ifconfig

Does it connect? If not, let's move on to the wireless and solve the ethernet later. Download this file to your desktop: http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/l/linux-firmware-nonfree/linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb Install it from the terminal:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb

Unload and reload the driver so it sees and uses the new firmware:

sudo modprobe -r b43 && sudo modprobe b43

Your wireless should now be working. If so, we'll tackle the ethernet. If not, check for informative messages:

dmesg | grep b43

Check for informative messages about the ethernet:

dmesg | grep sky2

Does the error you posted persist if you do:

sudo modprobe -r sky2 
sudo modprobe sky2
dmesg | grep sky2
ifconfig  <--no need to post the whole thing; just tell us if eth0 appears

Look for dmesg entries later than [3.19..]. Or also:

sudo modprobe -r sky2
sudo modprobe sky2 legacy_pme=1
dmesg | grep sky2
ifconfig  <--no need to post the whole thing; just tell us if eth0 appears

If either technique helps, we can write a file or two and make it persistent.

If there are still errors, please reboot so we have a clean slate and run:

dmesg > sky2.txt

Find the text file sky2.txt in your user directory and paste it here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/ Give us the link in your reply.

Please be sure your system (i.e. kernel version) is fully updated:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade

If a newer linux-image is installed, reboot.

I see the following in your dmesg:

[ 2.827902] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 107 at /build/buildd/linux-3.11.0/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:1074 assert_pipe+0x82/0xe0 i915 [ 2.827913] pipe A assertion failure (expected on, current off) [ 2.827918] Modules linked in: i915(+) sky2 ssb i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper wmi drm video(F) [ 2.827950]CPU: 1 PID: 107 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: GF W 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu

I'm not at all sure it has much or even anything to do with your issue, but I'd research and resolve it. I also notice that your system takes a very long time to boot and seems, if I am reading correctly, to get stuck at:

[ 3.241201] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

This looks like another i915 video issue.

Aside from these observations, I regret I am out of ideas.

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