Is anything happening with this? I've been doing some hunting around and there are some handheld linux based devices that use a usb-eth driver that does tcp over usb...

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5124708001.html

and http://dredd.crimea.edu/ipaq/ipaq-usb-howto-new.html

I'd *love* this at work - my computer is plugged into the network, but I can't plug my empeg into the corporate network. If I could plug it into USB as I currently do *and* have access to http, ftp etc it would be fantastic!