There seem to be many utilities that switch between USB Peripheral/Host (Networking) modes. The 3 I've tried are:

USB Control
USB Host/Otg
maemo-control-usb

And then the Maemo PC Connectivity package installs maemo-control-usb among other things. But I read somewhere that maemo-control-usb requires USB Control (Which requires Python).

What I'm trying to do is set up a LAN connection over USB between my N810 Diable and my Mac OSX Leopard. The reason I want this LAN connection is I'm trying to use Eclipse Pluthon to develop Python apps that can be run/debugged directly on the N810 without the need for the sandbox environment on my PC.

My questions are:
1. Do all three of these little utilities do the same thing?
2. Is Host mode the same as LAN/Networking mode?
3. What USB/PC Connectivity packages need to be installed to accomplish this.

P.S. I've read all the incomplete documentation and am completely confused because of the similar utilities having dependencies/conflicts, and not enough info about if they are good-to-go on Diablo or just Chinook.

No, host mode just means the n8x0 is the master, not slave.

But WHY use USB for that? Surely bluetooth or wifi are much easier. You're not making any sense to me.

I'm trying to use Pluthon to develop python apps (for the N810) on my mac. These apps can the be xferred to the N810 and tested and debugged on the N810 without the sandbox being required on the development PC. In order to do that I have to use ssh and PC Connectivity to execute commands from the Mac that execute on the N180. see http://maemo.org/development/documen..._connectivity/

FINALLY!

I just found out that I can connect to my Nokia N810 from my mac Leopard with SSH as explained in http://maemo.org/development/documen..._connectivity/.

I finally achieved success after installing/uninstalling the various USB Networking utilities that I mentioned earlier and after re-flashing my N810 four times to return it to a pristine state each time before trying again. I was successful after simplifying things and following just a few steps:

1. I followed the INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS- Target Environment (Tablet) at http://pluthon.garage.maemo.org/

2. I installed 'rootsh' so that I could gain root access in order to...

3. Change the IP addresses of N810's network interface configuration file (/etc/network/interfaces) to match my Mac's IP network.

Thanks for your help and I hope my experiences will in turn help someone in the future.