If you don't have it in the pc then the usb dongle would be an easier way to go. Here is a link to a search on newegg for usb wireless N there you can see various options, of course there are some other things that turn up in the search but focus on the usb wireless dongles, you definitely want usb 2.0 and you want to make sure it does all types of security including WPA2 so you can set up your system securely. As you will see some have antennas some just look like a usb thumb drive. If you wish to find out exactly what is in your pc I would go get the free tool belarc and let it scan your pc it will tell you everything. Belarc excellent free tool I have it on all mine Here is a link that might be useful: newegg

This is an area I have a lot of experience with. To avoid boring others, I'll give you a condensed reply. Email me (click on my name) if you want more detail. I trod this path almost 10 years ago and concluded that for me it was a big (and unnecessary) time waste. I gave up and have bought CDs to "digitize" my music collection. My music is now mostly ripped into lossless FLAC files (a FLAC file is the audio equivalent of ZIP, it's just a condensed version that reconstitutes back to the original on playback, with identical bit for bit content as the CD itself) Some will understandably say that a CD signal is something less than a true quality analog source and I agree. As for MP3 or other lossy formats, I hear the difference and I can't listen to them. No analog conversion is needed to produce a lossless FLAC or ALAC copy of a CD, it's digital all the way. Quality DACs and ADCs cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Don't fool yourself into thinking that some mickey mouse device will produce or reconsitute a quality digital signal. It won't. I tried with a ~$100 external sound card, the results (from a capture of an analog source out of my stereo system) weren't acceptable to me. Most people would have said "that sounds exactly like the record" - it sounded good, but inferior to a CD because of the inferior electronic signal path. Most PCs with Win 7 and up (maybe too with Vista) intentionally lack the drivers to allow capture of the sound card. There's probably some workaround to allow recording of a sound stream with something like Audacity, but since I gave up digitizing my substantial record collection (many hundreds of albums) some time ago, I stopped thinking about it. For those rare occasions I want to record something and it's sound for which the quality doesn't matter to me, I have a couple of old XP machines I use. So my solution was to buy CDs and rip 'em to FLAC. I still have the records and tapes, I never play them. (edited for typo) This post was edited by snidely on Wed, Jan 15, 14 at 20:34

Just wondering, if you are the first owner of this computer. If it was previously owned your onboard sound may have been disabled due to the prior owner installing a sound card and prior to selling you that system, removing that card and not re-enabling onboard sound. I have found this happens often. There is also the possibility of onboard features such as sound chips failing. In this case you could buy a sound card, disable onboard sound in the BIOS and install the drivers provided with the card you purchase.

Your email address is used to send you the license key and to inform you of programme updates in the event that you have opted not to let the programme check automatically. There have been a number of enhancements made since I purchased the programme in February 2008 and I have never received anything other than update notices from them. Colin