Hey, this is very nice!

I saw this thread this morning and went out and picked up an adapter (Trendnet TU-ET100C). It's Pegasus-based, so after a bit of dmesg digging and adding a UDEV rule for product 8511 as described above, it's working like a charm via dhcp.

Now for the $16 question (that's what the adapter cost): What do I have to change to get it to use a static IP? Necessary for my usage pattern for it to always have the same IP, but I can't set up dhcp to always assign that IP.