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Re:Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digit... by TillE on Friday April 08, 2011 @10:32AM (#2423949)
Pick any USB Ethernet adapter supported by Linux, and it should be fairly easy to get it working on your rooted phone.

Here's some code showing how to mess with networking on Android: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

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Re:Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digit... by JonnieCache on Friday April 08, 2011 @10:36AM (#2423970)
Unfortunately not. Android devices are not yet capable of acting reliably as USB hosts. This means you cannot connect peripheral devices to them.

The IOIO works by acting as a USB host itself.

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Re:Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digit... by ck2 on Friday April 08, 2011 @02:26PM (#2425047)
I've seen android prototype devices by vendors for demos and they have ethernet ports. But I guess that's not a usb interface either, it's native.
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