Need help for an Android Ethernet driver

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hi all.

I've taken delivery of a Nexus 7 tablet and am very happy with it
(questions welcomed).

One thing that I was hoping to do, when travelling with it, was to have
some method of using wired Ethernet with it (typically, when staying in a
hotel room that has a wired Ethernet drop but poor or no in-room wifi, this
has happened a few times).

Plan A is to use the USB "on the go" spec to attach an Ethernet-to-USB
connector.
Plan B is to get a cheap wifi router <http://www.ebay.ca/itm/160801487354>,
which is more expensive and much bulkier.

I've taken possession of item A, a $3 thing from
eBay<http://www.ebay.ca/itm/120946886349#ht_2815wt_1165>,
cheap enough that it didn't work I would toss it.

When I plug it in and run `lsusb` on the Nexus 7, the hardware is seen but
there's no driver. I get
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0fe6:9700

When I plug the same device into Ubuntu, it works fine and from `lsusb` I
get
Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0fe6:9700 Kontron (Industrial Computer Source / ICS
Advent) DM9601 Fast Ethernet Adapter

I've been able to find Linux drivers for
this<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1641274>and in
fact it's been made to work with the Motorola
Xoom <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418591> and Asus
Transformer <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705759>.

Could some kind person here help me turn this driver into something usable
on the stock N7 kernel?

Thanks!

-- 
Evan Leibovitch
Toronto Canada

Em: evan at telly dot org
Sk: evanleibovitch
Tw: el56
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