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Jan 23 05:48:30 <brolin_empey> You can use a USB↔Ethernet adapter on the N900, at least with the asix Linux driver in the power kernel.
Jan 23 05:54:00 <Oksanaa> brolin_empey: How does it show up in GUI?
Jan 23 05:54:25 <Oksanaa> I have a USB-Ethernet adapter (or two), but most of my Nokia N900s have broken microUSB port.
Jan 23 05:57:37 <Maxdamantus> I imagine it wouldn't show up in the usual Maemo GUI.
Jan 23 06:01:54 <Oksanaa> Maxdamantus: Interesting. Is it the same for USB Internet?
Jan 23 06:02:16 * Oksanaa wonders how it could be written into GUI - but later, later. Doable but not urgent.
Jan 23 06:03:49 <Maxdamantus> I'm not familiar with the way USB ethernet (presumably under g_nokia/"PC Suite mode") works.
Jan 23 06:04:07 * Maxdamantus just uses g_ether and uses `ifconfig` to set a static IP address there.
Jan 23 06:07:33 <Oksanaa> GUI presumably also interacts with ifconfig or something like that?
Jan 23 06:09:56 <Maxdamantus> I doubt it. I can see when connecting to a WiFi network, it uses `udhcpc` to make DHCP requests. I suspect for a static address configuration, the calls would just be made within the icd2 process, but dunno.
Jan 23 06:16:13 <Maxdamantus> afaict, the way you set the IP address of an interface on Linux is by creating a socket with protocol = IPPROTO_IP, and then you can perform a `SIOCSIFADDR` ioctl on that fd to set the address of any interface.
Jan 23 06:16:38 <Maxdamantus> so probably easy enough to just do within icd2 or some plugin or whatever, dunno how icd works.
Jan 23 06:17:10 <Maxdamantus> DHCP is more complicated, so it makes sense to run another program to handle that.
Jan 23 06:36:20 <KotCzarny> i think she has normal usb2eth dongle
Jan 23 06:36:27 <KotCzarny> which should show as ethX
Jan 23 06:37:15 <KotCzarny> so itbut anyway, ifconfig/udhcpc should work
Jan 23 06:37:39 <KotCzarny> as long the dongle's chip is supported in 2.6 kernel
Jan 23 06:44:44 <Maxdamantus> Indeed, when I said I suspect the GUI wouldn't show it, that's just because the GUI probably only deals with "wlan0" and maybe "gprs0", etc, rather than any arbitrary device that the kernel exposes.
Jan 23 06:45:32 <KotCzarny> oh and there is issue about power
Jan 23 06:45:48 <KotCzarny> n900's musb might not supply enough
Jan 23 07:44:19 <brolin_empey> It has been years since I connected my N900 to a wired LAN but, if I recall correctly, I had to use ifconfig or ip, route, and other programs from the Command-Line Interface to get it working.  I used the D-Link DUB-E100 model of USB↔Fast Ethernet adapter because it is what was used by a YouTube video demonstrating connecting the N900 to a wired LAN with this model of adapter but they had an earlier revision of the adapter that I could no longer buy so I 
Jan 23 07:44:19 <brolin_empey> had to patch the asix driver in the power kernel for Maemo 5 to add the new USB vendor:product identifier combinations that had been added to the asix driver in the mainline kernel since the 2.6.28 kernel used by Maemo 5.  I think the file I had to patch is named asix_devices.c but that was in 2013, which is six years ago.
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