I've ordered the following items, I found for shipping to France :

IMPORTANT NOTE : I have NOT tested those accessories in anyway yet ! I'll report here when done, with comments and humble advices.
Also: test this under you own responsability.

* The 5-pin "micro USB (EMU) (male) to mini USB (female) adapter"
(skn6252a, Motorola Charger Adapter) : not in stock, 2 days order to their supplier (http://www.expansys.fr/p.aspx?i=160903)
* An "ORA Networks USB Adaptor Male A to Male Mini 5"
(http://www.expansys.fr/p.aspx?i=110999)
At Expansys France (http://www.expansys.fr/)

* A female USB A - A female adapter (http://www.abix.fr/xxdisplayproduct.asp?ccode=081140)
* A powered USB HUB (http://www.abix.fr/xxdisplayproduct.asp?ccode=021251)
At Abix (http://www.abix.fr/)

XooH

Where/how did you format the card successfully?

I tried my XP PC, my Canon camera, and my Palm PDA, and all give "Unable to connect, no file system available."

Hey guys i've been following a few posts here and consider myself a good computer user but hardly one to go into OS's and begin modifying things to add extras to a device. I am begining a worldwide traveling excursion lasting several years and am serching for the perfect device to bring with me. However in some situations i will be faced with no available wi-fi but a hardwire ethernet. How simple would it be for a pretty savvy windows user to get a hard wired ethernet connection up and running on the N810?

I am planning to carry a WTR54GS travel router. At a cost of 8 oz. travel weight (plus cable) it provides untethered connection to an ethernet port.

Yea i'm more looking to use something like this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=3504463

Sabrent USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 Adapter (M501-1330)

i have a strong feeling that something like this wouldn't work as a plug n play and would require some tweaking of the system. Has anyone got an adapter similar to the gigabit to work on the n810?

I want it to be something that would not need an external power source. So far i've seen that the n810 is capable of reading thumb drives and card readers via a usb adapter, which gives unlimited storage capabilities (which is great because this little guy is going to replace my ipod as well) and i understand the flash drives and readers don't require any modification of the system.

Anyone tried a battery powered USB drive?

Formatting in my Canon S70 seemed to do the trick for the card that was giving me issues.

I also connected various USB thumb drives, and once I acquired it, used a SD to CF adapter in a CF reader to test both reading full sized SD cards on the N810, and round tripping a SD-mini card from the camera to the N810 and back. Now I can shoot on SD mini and micro cards in the S70 (which takes CF cards) via the adapter and put the cards directly into the N810 to view the images.

The Linksys compact USB 100M ethernet works without even a powered hub. You need to manually do "ifconfig eth0 inet xxx up" or "udhcpc eth0" to enable and/or get the address.

WiSpy works too, though I've had lockups. But the programs work, e.g. I've compiled the GTK version (non-hildonized) and it works:

http://homepage.mac.com/tz1/.cv/tz1/...ol_gtk-zip.zip

You will likely need to do "chmod +x spectool_gtk" after extracting it for it to work.

Is there a certain microusb to regular usb connector to use? a quick search of connectors shows mainly ones that are used to charge a device through the microusb port via a usb connection.
here i one i found http://store.pchcables.com/2in1symiusbd.html

i wish it weren't so long though, i'd prefer a cable that was only a few inches long ideally.

What kind of adapter are you using to access a thumb drive?

Success! The N810 recognized a USB flash drive that takes a CF card (MediaGear MGXC-100). It came right up in File Manager. Even lit up the little blue LED.

It doesn't recognize my Simpletech Bonzai SD flash drive, using any number of SD cards, formatted on the PC or in either of my cameras. I'll get another SD flash drive and try it.

Since that is a micro to USB adapter, it might not have the fifth wire to enable host mode. I'd guess that's why the OP used the two connectors described in his first post.

If you intend to solder the host mode sense wire, you'll need some length of cable. His assembly is only 5" long.