Turns out that error gets thrown when it can't find the built-in sound files. Whee!

So here's the pre-alpha story.

Grab:
http://users.wpi.edu/~chaos/zfone-armel-n800.tar.gz

I've included all the dependencies I know of that aren't the rtcomm platform.

You'll need to do all of this as root, for now.

Assuming you put the file in /media/mmc1/zfone-armel-n800.tar.gz

cd /tmp/
tar xzvf /media/mmc1/zfone-armel-n800.tar.gz
dpkg -i *.deb
cd /
tar xzvf /tmp/zfone-resources.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/
tar xzvf /tmp/zfone-resources.tar.gz

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Yes, the resources need to be in two places for now. I'm not terribly skilled as far as debian packaging, as you can see!
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You can now start zfoned as root by doing:
insmod /tmp/ip_queues.ko
zfoned
run-standalone.sh zfone

Caveat: I still have no work internet, so this is untried, but it seems to be working fine except for that.

Let me know how it goes