Thank you for the info, in fact it was stated on a few resources online that the Atmega chip used in the Arduino UNO for USB/serial conversion was loaded with a firmware that mimics the FTDI driver in all it's behaviors, with the key difference laying in the different Vendor ID.

I will have to look further into it.

I have reflashed the N810 with the latest DIABLO image, and haven't burned the modded kernel this time. I wanted to try to load the required drivers by hand with insmod.

I found the CDC driver page, but at my first attempt (loading just the CDC USB driver) the USB port did not come to life and fire up the Arduino board. I guess there will be more modules to be installed.