If you get the error "Error claiming USB interface: Device or resource busy" when flashing your Nokia N810 via USB, this might help:
(source: talk.maemo.org)
General information and directions to help flash your N810 can be found here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware
[updated 2010-03-24]:
In Ubuntu 9.10 it seems to still fail even after removing cdc_phonet, so you have to remove phonet too.
(source: talk.maemo.org)
sudo modprobe -r cdc_phonet
(source: talk.maemo.org)
General information and directions to help flash your N810 can be found here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware
[updated 2010-03-24]:
In Ubuntu 9.10 it seems to still fail even after removing cdc_phonet, so you have to remove phonet too.
sudo rmmod phonet sudo rmmod cdc_phonet
(source: talk.maemo.org)
Wicked. Was having trouble re-flashing my (poor old) Nokia 770 in SuSE 11.2. This solved it (-: