Full disclosure: I was fiddling with things .

Ssh was working earlier this evening. Then I decided to install nitdroid. Nitdroid installed cleanly on my micro sd card and I was able to boot into it and download some marketplace apps.

Booted back into Maemo and everything "looked" good, until I tried to ssh into my n900. Any attempts to ssh to the wlan IP address time out.

I checked and openssh, openssh-client and openssh-server are all reported as still installed. However, just to be safe I uninstalled them and reinstalled them (and rebooted the phone). I reinstalled them a few times and rebooted. No go.

When I try /etc/init.d/sshd [start or stop], it's not found. I have no idea why apt reports this as installed (and successfully reinstalled) and the daemon isn't found.

I can't ps -aux | grep 'sshd' because I don't seem to have a pipe symbol on the keyboard (irritated aside -- who releases a linix phone without a pipe or a tilde???)

(a) does nitdroid installation break ssh (or was this just a coincidence)?

and

(b) how do I fix this, now? I need ssh more than I'd like nitdroid!

I pulled the microsd card out and reinstalled all the openssh stuff and it still doesn't work.

I just don't know what I could have broken, here. Searching the group for ssh didn't really turn up any threads that seemed relevant.