I had to reinstall XP on a Dell Inspiron B120 purchased around 2006 or 2007. I have no original recovery or driver CD. Now, The device manager says a few things still need drivers, such as Ethernet Controller, Network Controller, PCI, Video, etc. I went to Dell, where they do still have a bunch of drivers for the B120. Copied them to CD, inserted CD, and the Driver Installation Wizard still says the drivers are no good. (Does a search, even in manual mode, still says it can't find the drivers.) Yes, I went to the device manager and tried re-installing/rolling back previous driver, no luck. I even downloaded the Broadcom Ethernet driver (apparently it has a model 5701 Gigabit) from Braodcom's website directly, force-installed it and now it says 'Device cannot start - error code 10.' No drivers I have found work, but I suspect there is some problem deeper than that because these drivers should work.
Obviously, since I have no ethernet or network drivers, I can't get online with this machine ... I can only use CD. I am currently using another computer to get the drivers onto CD.
Any Ideas? Is there any way to piggy-back this machine to another computer and use the other computer's internet connection to try and get the right drivers? I think if I could just get the internet to work (LAN or wireless), I could get the right drivers via an outside-source scan of some type.
Thanx for any help!
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I am following the advice of seasoned Ubuntu professionals and am posting my question here with a printout of a script posted by Wildman et al. I am grateful to you for your offer to help. Here is the link to the script output: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/7706664/
I have tried numerous suggestions posted here on askubuntu.com. My device is not blacklisted. I can see it listed when I run lshw -C network:
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Any advice you can offer at this point would be greatly appreciated. I believe I have tried just about every suggestion on the forum. I got the ethernet connection working, and I feel I am close on the wireless connection, also.