It's a very good question; while it didn't precisely scare me off (I don't scare easy ), it did seem like way more hassle than it was worth. I'm finally trying to actually do the rtcomm today.

qwerty12, very good news. Benson, make sure you relate your experience, too.

It would seem that someone needs to update the RTComm website.

Yeah, I got it working, I think. Installed via qwerty12's link, ran the installer, everything installed fine, I guess. Now I have to get it installed on another machine to test, though...

For Link Local testing, you can also install Empathy on any Linux machine.... Including a tablet with Easy Debian / Deblet

Nothing like talking to yourself for that mad feeling...

OK, today I felt that after even installing the Fennec alpha, I could try to get rtcomm-beta running. I think I did (not quite sure, but it looks good.)

But: Avahi still doesn't start automatically. maemo-control-services says its in the list of services that should start at boot time, but I don't see my N800 in the Avahi-browser and get this on the command line:

Only when I run "etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start" manually I get the whole thing going.
I'm not familiar with the way Debian handles services (I'm on gentoo here), but from what I guess we have a default raunlevel "2", right? There's a /etc/rc2.d/ directory, which has two avahi-entries:
So probably the tablet tries to start them when I switch it on; could it be that S14 and S16 indicate it's started too early so that services it depends on aren't yet running?

It would be helpful to see the configuration of somebody who has a working setup so a can just copy-paste... (or, better, you could try to teach me how to properly use update-rc.d on Maemo )

I have been trying to get the exact same thing running on the scratchbox environment. Could you please tell me how to go about testing this on the scratchbox environment? I have installed the avahi-daemon on Diablo Scratchbox environment. How do i proceed from here?

If we downgrade the avahi daemon will the installation be proper in the scratchbox emulator?

Thanks

Running avahi by rc-scripts while booting up doesn't work here, too.

I think, rc-scripts are the wrong place. Avahi has to be started by the nework-manager after connecting to the network and receiving a IP-Number. Without network, avahi-daemon can't attach and build up the upd-network.

Up and running now - changing the startup-links from S20avahi... to S21avahi... got it working.

More description here - http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2008/11...-on-maemo.html

Thanks! I couldn't figure out why avahi worked for a while and then stopped, now I know the reason and I fixed it.

BTW, I don't think I have the avahi-dnsconfd installed, just the daemon works fine for the discovery.