Well, it seems to be user error or stupdiity. I recently reflashed again (see my tale of woe in Ashley's single root partition thread) and am having same problem with ssh & network.
ps shows that sshd is running, however when I kill the process and try to restart I get an error about unable to load host key. There are host keys for RSA and DSA in the /etc/ssh/ directory.
Additionally, I can't ping my pc nor from the pc to my Z, I'm running W2K and the SL connection shows up in Network. I'm puzzled as I've never had such connectivity problems with my Z before.
ifconfig shows the proper ip address, so I'm at a loss
Oh, the good news is that my wireless connection works, but at work there is no wireless connection, sigh...
I'm having a bad Z day