I have a laptop with networking interfaces
eth0 (Atheros AR8152) and
wlan0 (Broadcom 4727) which are not supported by the kernel version of 10.04 LTS (
2.6.32-21-generic). I needed a kernel version 2.6.37 or higher to get these 2 interfaces working. But since I had no Internet connection, the best way,
based on the answer(s) to my query, was to download the kernel manually from
http://packages.ubuntu.com and install it in it's binary (.deb) format. When I tried searching for them in the package site, I saw that these
linux-generic or
linux-*-generic files had multiple dependencies so I thought twice of installing them this way. Dependencies is actually one of the top reason why I get freaked out about installing Linux distros without an Internet connection.