Woohoo! fiasco-gen works beatifully, project homepage has updated instructions with links to debs that flash kernel.

aziwoqpds minstrel patch is now also included (along with matans iphb patch)

For some reason my MacBookPro refused to talk to the N900 even though it could see and connect to the ad-hoc network (this has happened before and I never figured out exactly why, basically it does not get IP from dnsmasq and I cannot ping the device even if I set IP manually)

Now I need to get some sleep.