USB Ethernet Question

Hi, I am working on a friend's iMac G3. She basically uses her computer for checking email and such, and recently her internet stopped working for her. I brought it over to my house to test it on my network and it wouldn't work here either. I consider myself rather computer savvy and I have tried every option possible, including manually bringing the interface up with ifconfig. I figured the easiest replacement option, and the cheapest for her would be a USB ethernet adapter, so I bought a Linksys USB200M from TigerDirect, plugged it in, and 10.1 doesn't want to recognize it. Upon further research, it seems many sites suggested upgrading to 10.3 or later if you want to use USB ethernet. Any ideas that wouldn't require and upgrade? She doesn't really want to spend much more money and this is a big hassle for her so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

It is listed as plug and play, but not mac compatible, although http://www.sustworks.com/site/newsusbethernet.html says it works with OS X 10.3+. Right now this thing won't even light up.
I am looking for a USB ethernet adapter to connect to a DSL modem, not a wireless bridge. The DSL modem is brand new to replace her old one which is broke recently, so I am sure that works. It isn't working on my network either which uses a DHCP router to connect to a cable modem, but all my other computers (including my dad's MacBook) work fine immediately after being plugged in. Like I said, I have tried all the network configuration options, including the command line (which I am quite familiar with as I administer several FreeBSD servers) and I'm sure the built-in card is dead. What I would like to know now is if it is possible to get this adapter working on 10.1, and if not, which adapter I should buy instead. It seems hard to find one that works with Mac unfortunately.

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Is this a question? A complaint? Nothing any of us can do about that, and this is a well-documented and well-known issue.
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Douglas Urner wrote:
Is anybody out there successfully using the Apple USB Ethernet adapter on a Mac Mini Server running 10.6.6? They have stopped working for me.
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USB Ethernet works on other computers (Mac Pro) and did work with this 2012 MBAir with OS X 10.8.
Any ideas? Other brand USB ethernet adapters (Cisco and generic Ebay USB 2.0 Gigabit adapter) work fine with this MBAir and Mavericks.

That's an overly broad statement. I have a TB equipped Mac Mini and the USB Ethernet adapter works fine with it. It's only Fast Ethernet (100MB) while the TB adapter is Gigabit Ethernet (1000MB) but it does work. Also worked fine on my TB eqiuped MB Pro.
Cheers,

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