luca, thanks for the info about red pill mode.

I am wondering if any of the packages on the "bora" version of http://repository.maemo.org/ can be installed on a virgin N800 at all, without red pill mode, using the web browser. I didn't try that myself as I did not have a WiFi connection.

If not, maybe the folks at maemo.org should somehow make the information about red-pill mode more obvious? I wasted a few hours because of this ....