Debian is a bust, moving to Hackable1 distro

As the title states, Debian on Freerunner was a bust. It ran really slow in NAND, in fact, NAND turns out to be too small to run a decent distro with a full load out of tools. I installed Hackable (a variant of Debian for developers) onto NAND but then ran out of space when I started to add packages. So then I installed it onto my 16GB SD card and have begun to install packages to add functionality. Here is a list of packages installed so far:

Packages installed for Hackable1

1. First, apt-get install update and apt-get install upgrade

2. apt-get install perl (for building other packages)

3. apt-get install gcc

4. apt-get install busybox (for ifconfig and others)

5. apt-get install quagga (routing)

6. apt-get install ethtool

7. apt-get install binutils

8. apt-get install jamvm (Java virtual machine)

9. apt-get install linphone (VOIP software for linux) (as of 28 July not working)

10. apt-get install twinkle (same as above)

I've tried hooking up the USB to Ethernet adapter to the phone and have had no luck so far. When I switch the OpenMoko to host mode I get the blue LED on the Ethernet adapter, however the Phone does not recognize the adapter. I can not ping from the phone to my Netbook through the adapter. I've begun investigating Quagga and Ethtool to see if some additional configuration is needed to get the adapter to route traffic. When I plug the adapter into my Netbook running OpenSUSE 11.2 it recognized it immediately and assigns it an interface name (Eth3). No such luck upon plugging it into the phone.