Originally Posted by SubCore

the phone doesn't respond to pings, so that's expected.

make sure the ssh daemon is running - type in xterm:

Code:

ps aux | grep ssh

you should get a line containing "sshd" and ":22" somewhere. if not, your daemon isn't running, and you can start it by rebooting the device or by issuing

Code:

sudo gainroot
initctl sshd start