Setting up USB Ethernet Adapter

My sister has a macbook (1st generation?) and her Ethernet port has recently stopped working. We know it's not the cord or the outlet (dorm room) and the macbook doesn't even recognize that an ethernet cable is plugged in (in diagnostics). So we've decided to go with a USB Ethernet adapter. We bought one and it hasn't worked. It's the only thing we could find in the area and careful reading of the label reveals that it's for "Macbook Air only."
Is there any way we can get this to work for my sister's macbook? I have hope because of the first review on this page:
http://store.apple.com/us/reviews/MB442Z/A?mco=MTA4ODUzODQ .
He says that he got it to work on his 5-year-old mac mini by turning off the built-in ethernet and connecting with DHCP. How can I do this on my sister's macbook? How do I connect through DHCP?

Daboa, I can see you're using OS 10.4 (some of these options are in different places on Leopard). Try this: Open System Preferences (either on the dock, or find it by clicking the apple in the top left corner of the screen) and go to the "Network" panel. If the USB-Ethernet adapter is plugged in, it should show up in the drop-down menu called "Show." First, pick the item called "Built-In Ethernet," and in its TCP/IP tab, set IPv4 to "off." Then, in the "Show" drop-down, pick the external Ethernet adapter (I don't know what it would be called exactly), and in its TCP/IP tab, set IPv4 to "DHCP." Then make sure the USB adapter is connected to the Ethernet cable, pick "Network Status" in the "Show" field, and hope for the light to turn green.
DHCP just means that the network adapter will do its best to figure out how to connect to the network. If the dorm wants you to use some specific settings, then they'll provide those, and you'll need to stick them into the other blanks in the TCP/IP field.
Hope this helps.

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