well after going through the beta4 mods I did get wireless to work.. but it was finicky - disconnected twice while I was using it, signal strength was lower in network manager than in the maemo screen - and I had to initiate a manual wpa_cli scan when it was trying to connect to my network to get it to actually connect.

After the second disconnect it started having problems setting the driver to something (can't find the logs).. kept saying "disconnecting from 00:00:00:00:00".. it was odd. But at least it worked for a while .. huge thanks to John for the debian and to all the beta4 guys for what they are doing.. this is awesome to have a full linux in your pocket.. not some watered down micro-version of linux .

I also seem to have issues with sound being a bit choppy.. playing music files in mplayer seems fine if I am not doing anything else.. but video files are awful - anyone else have that problem?