First I'd like to thank Rob for writing his HOWTO to help users reach the real-world goal of connecting to the internet in a hotel room. The Tablets (especially the N770) are perfect for travel, but the advantage of compactness is lost if you also have to carry an AP for locations lacking WiFi. Unless you have a local SIM, GPRS connections can be prohibitively expensive. There are other blogs and wikis and apps for USB networking, but they aim to connect a Tablet with another Linux computer, which also must be configured to accept the connection. Not many hotel managers would let a guest configure the hotel's computer or router.

Can someone confirm that usbLAN will not work with OS2008HE? In Rob's example of the dmesg when he connects his Linksys adapter, there is a line:

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using musb_hdrc and address 9 .

The N770 does not use musb_hdrc, not even in 2008HE. Mine tried to use ohci to connect the RTL8150 device. The funny thing is, the WIRED connection came up in Connections Manager, and all the correct lights came on, including the router's LED for the relevant wired port. However, the browser would not show any web pages.

The adapter works perfectly on the PC, which identifies it as being indeed a Realtek RTL8150.

Kate Alhola's edits of /etc/dnsmasq.conf and /etc/network/interfaces didn't help, whether combined with usbLAN or with the dummy IAP. During these attempts, I had disabled MAC filtering on the router.

With the dummy IAP approach, the Tablet did reach the stage of "Waiting for RNDIS". Do hotels usually have the appropriate RNDIS driver? I have not installed it on my PC, because I want to connect the Tablet with the router and internet, not with the PC.

Has anyone succeeded in connecting an N770 to a hotel room's ethernet port?