On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 00:14 +0100, Tony Mansson wrote:
The Weekly Status Report from the Android Platform Team is available
here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Status/2011-12-08
The report says this bug 894502 is fixed "No Ethernet Communication Manager on ICS."
I can't find any Android commits to fix this (I may have missed them), and the bug isn't marked as fixed in Launchpad.
There was a workaround posted to the bug for bringing up ethernet to get ADB working. But this doesn't appear to enable networking for GUI apps like the web browser.