The question here is what is your time worth? As a few others have suggested if you have an available PCI slot run down to the local computer chain store and get a PCI ethernet 10/100 card. They are about $15.00-$20.00. Make sure its a wired ethernet card.
Too many stores have removed the wired version trying to force people to use wireless. This all assumes the computer in question is the wired variety.
The question here is what is your time worth? As a few others have suggested if you have an available PCI slot run down to the local computer chain store and get a PCI ethernet 10/100 card. They are about $15.00-$20.00. Make sure its a wired ethernet card.Sux, but this slimline version has no available slots, so not an option. I have to make the existing work ...