Nexus 7 and ethernet connection

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In places where there's no wi fi, wired internet connection is sometimes available. But reading around it seems there's a bug in the/my Nexus 7 (2013) - Android updated to 4.4.2 - that prevents an ethernet connector from working.

Is this correct? Has there been any response from Google about it - a firmware fix? I'm not really up to doing my own patching.

Ideas welcome!