Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:fu6dla$9la$1
@aioe.org:

>> Where I'd like an iPhone size device is at the hotel to use the hotel's
>> Wi-Fi rather than haul along a laptop. Alas, many hotels still have only
>> wired access, including the last hotel I stayed at in Asia.
>
> I believe Larry is now selling N800s door-to-door... ;-)
>
>

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...p?title=HOWTO:
_Wired_Networking_using_USB_host_mode_and_OS_2008

Nope just solutions. This webpage is a howto to setup the N800 with a
Linksys Ethernet-to-USB adapter (Linksys USB100M) so you can plug either
OS2008 Maemo Linux tablet into an Ethernet system, directly, at the hotel.

Ignore the link to put the tablet into OTG or Host mode on its USB port.
No more hacking is necessary as there is a nice little app, of course free,
that simply has 3 buttons on it for you to choose the USB mode from the GUI
app:

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/usbcontrol/

With a common camera miniUSB cable and a female-to-female gender changer, I
can now connect USB peripherals such as my 1TB USB hard drives, a USB hub
from Staples via the thrift shop, my HP scanner/printer, even a Microsoft
USB full keyboard to the tablet's USB port. I ordered my own gender
changer today because noone in town here has one I can find. The Geek
Squad at BB told me I can't connect the tablet's USB port to devices, only
computers. "Like this?", I offered showing him an 8GB SD card in a USB
adapter plugged into the gender changer on loan to me.....(c;

Priceless.....(c; Another convert...