I've been doing some further testing of my own here and had some mixed results with USB hubs; sometimes the powered hub works properly to drive a flash drive and other equipment, sometimes the tablet just gets mad and doesn't see the additional devices... so further testing on that required as others are saying there's been success. I'm hoping that for lower powered devices (i.e. keyboard, mouse, etc) an un-powered hub will work; the biggest hold back at the moment is that I'm still waiting on my latest shipment of connectors to come in. Once they arrive I'll have a few more goodies to offer up on the site including a cool hub, the Linksys NIC mentioned previously, an RS232 adapter that I've confirmed works properly, and a small powered Hub.
In the meantime anyone who's interested in trying their own networking/already has an adapter and a NIC, here's the package I built up:


Just open the link on the Tablet and choose to open the file with Application manager; it'll install the additional kernel modules for all supported NIC chipsets and set them to load at boot time; it'll also setup the udev rules for setup/tear down of wired networking.

Once the package is installed, simply go somewhere that you don't have wifi access, plug in your adapter with NIC connected to LAN cable, and after the "no file system found" dialog pops up just open your browser/or whatever and choose "WIRED" from the list of connections. That's it, works no problems.

When you're done to be safe make sure to disconnect the USB NIC from the adapter BEFORE REMOVING THE ADAPTER FROM THE TABLET. If you simply remove the adapter the tablet doesn't seem to get the disconnect called, so the IP info/routes never get cleared and the tablet tries to direct all traffic through the non-existent NIC. But that's it, that's as easy as I could make it ;o)

I should point out one important point here: although the package will load modules for all the complied NIC drivers, it only calls the scripts for the rtl8150 at the moment. This is because it was the only device that I had access to to read the udev information from. If anyone has another device that they connect and get to show up properly (you will have to manually call /usb/sbin/usbEthUp.sh) please let me know so that I can add it to the udev rules for others to enjoy.


Like I said I will be offering the Linksys NICs on the site in the next few days once I get enough adapters back in stock to cover things and keep people happy ;o) (and on the page for the adapter I'll be linking to the above package with instructions; I made it so easy that even my Dad can do it, so should be pretty safe!)

I'm going to take a look at your mouse post; with any luck there might be a way to setup a package like with the NIC so that if you plug a mouse in it will make the cursor appear/etc, and it will go away again when disconnected... (that'd be awesome to have working).

Thanks!
-Rob