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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
I myself got a much cheaper and simple one. female-usb to male-ethernet, and it's a lot more symplistic - it literally looks like they took four of the pins in the ethernet plug and took those wires and routed them to the USB port pins. This one I haven't fiddled too much with, but it's not as plug-n-play as the post I linked to above reported theirs as being.
BEWARE!
There are such adapters that do exactly that, they use RJ45 patchcables with a large number of adapters RJ45-F<->$RANDOM to build all sorts of cables and adapters, e.g. micro-USB-M<--(patchcable)-->USB-A-F.

NEVER EVER use such a thing to connect N900-USB directly to a ethernet network or NIC. It will definitely fry your N900

/j
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