Thanks for the ideas. Tried running dsmetest and it complains about dsmesock_connect: No such file or directory. So does retutime and date and time on debian are always wrong.
Just for the curious: one of the repositories (the biggest one I think) is http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/de...ol-armel/main/
I found some debian rootfs from the same server and configured it, installed X and dsp-gateway and some more things.
I am wondering how to make an image of my mmc1 partition. If I do "./targnu cf - -C /media/mmc1 . " will tar preserve the permissions and the files inside /dev/