OK, today I felt that after even installing the Fennec alpha, I could try to get rtcomm-beta running. I think I did (not quite sure, but it looks good.)

But: Avahi still doesn't start automatically. maemo-control-services says its in the list of services that should start at boot time, but I don't see my N800 in the Avahi-browser and get this on the command line:

Only when I run "etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start" manually I get the whole thing going.
I'm not familiar with the way Debian handles services (I'm on gentoo here), but from what I guess we have a default raunlevel "2", right? There's a /etc/rc2.d/ directory, which has two avahi-entries:
So probably the tablet tries to start them when I switch it on; could it be that S14 and S16 indicate it's started too early so that services it depends on aren't yet running?

It would be helpful to see the configuration of somebody who has a working setup so a can just copy-paste... (or, better, you could try to teach me how to properly use update-rc.d on Maemo )