I have been trying for a couple weeks now to get usb networking working on my n800 so that I can use it at work (where we have no wireless access), but I have so far been unsuccessful. This topic is covered in many different wiki pages, but the information is rather fragmented, and it's kind of difficult to piece together which steps are for the 770, the n800, different firmware versions, etc., so I'm hoping someone here can help me. Here's what I've done so far:

After many unsuccessful attempts mucking around, I decided to do a fresh flash, with the newest version of the firmware, and start over.

Since I'm working with Windows XP at work, I started with this page. But, it says for the n800, to ignore all steps pertaining to the 770 since bora supplies the "maemo-statusbar-usbnet" applet. The phrasing there would make me think that this applet is already installed, but upon finding it wasn't, and didnt' appear to be in any of the repositories either, I googled it, and found next to nothing. I did have the .deb on my desktop from my previous attempts, so I tried using that. The application manager reported that it was incompatible. So, I figured I had to find a different way to do it.

Since I could find no other methods of setting up usb networking on windows, I decided to try using the n800 steps from this page and then go on to the windows steps for the previous page. Using gainroot as described there returned a message along the lines of "Enable R&D mode if you want to brick your device", so I then used these directions to get root access. Now that I had root access, I tried to with the usb cable connected as the directions said, but my device tells me So now I'm a little lost...Any help?