Ubuntu, Linksys WUSB600N v1, Dish DVR: whose @#$% idea was this?

I love Ubuntu and give myself a little “mental hug” each day for making the switch from Windows to Linux. But, sometimes, the stuff I want/need to do in Linux just isn’t as obvious to me as I’d like; so, I beat my head against a wall trying to figure it out, until my wife gives me that “walk away from it for awhile so you can maintain the little bit of sanity you have left” look. This particular situation is one of those.

What I wanted to do: I have a Dish Network DVR in my living room that has an ethernet card in it, but I don’t have any ethernet wiring where it is. What I do have is an Ubuntu XBMC HTPC with an on-board ethernet card and a Linksys WUSB600N v1 (the version number is important here, I think), connected to a Linksys WAP610N AP (configured for 5GHz 802.11N only), so it stands to reason that I should be able to share the HTPC’s internet connection with the Dish DVR, right?

Ok, so it wasn’t. Twice. Once for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and once for 10.04 (Lucid).

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