Ok. So I feel pretty stupid, I was saying that I couldn't get the keyboard to work, but I did, in ROXTerm. But then ROXTerm wouldn't let me sudo. So then I tried ssh root@localhost, and I did it! I got to root.

Then I did ifup wlan0 and it said that it was already up! Hmm... ifconfig showed it had no IP address... I did ifdown wlan0 and it disconnected (DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 ... huh? No such address around here!) and then I did ifup wlan0 again and woohoo! I got a connection to my LAN! Now I can successfully SSH in from anywhere.

OK, this is very funny! I ran "/etc/init.d/hildon-session stop" (screen went white with mouse pointer only) then I ran "/etc/init.d/x-server stop" (nothing changed), then I ran "startxfce4" and I got something quite unexpected! I had, out of habit, run my SSH with the -Y parameter (insecure X forwarding), and the XFce4 desktop started up, 1024x768 in Windows XP (my SSH client)! I've never been able to get my N800 to X-Forward from the Hildon desktop, and suddenly, there it was, forwarding the entire N800 desktop to my XP laptop! Cool!