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Apologies to take so long to get back to this. I was a bit worried I might be wasting your time. Since I'd done most of this on one laptop (Thinkpad X200) in one virtual machine, I thought that I'd try something else to see whether there was some common factor in that that was causing these results.
So I tried to install Arch on an old XP laptop I've recently moved away from (Thinkpad X40). Alas the install which seemed to go OK, for now, seems to have failed. Oddly, the very internet connection that I used to install it is no longer working! But I got far enough to get the SD cardreader working and so tried imaging a 4GB class 4 sandisk - but with the same results as before!
What type of SD card are you using? I've mainly been using class 10 or better Sandisk cards but I do have a bit of variety (a Samsung for instance). I put another copy of the earlier image on another card just the other day but got the same old results.
I don't know how such a dd image would avoid the problems as the problem
doesn't seem to be in creating the image on the SD card. Although, at this stage, I'm happy to try anything. I don't know that my problems are all that mysterious, even if they do seem rather intractable. It seems concern the loading of the wireless firmware and timing issues that may well relate to the use of an SD card.
I was thinking about attempting to make an internal install from the external install, on the SD card, but fdisk, for instance, seems to only see the external SD card and no partitions internal to the device. I haven't seen anything like your Debian/OS X behaviour, but you reminded me of that.
If you'd like to try it, my google drive account seems to have plenty of space, but there also seem to be complications with using it. I'll probably just try to set up a free account with Mega. Perhaps it would be best if I just sent you a private message via mobileread once I've done that and we can try to arrange something.
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