in.telnetd sshd stopped responding

sshd and in.telnetd were working well on 7.10 KUbuntu on my Thinkpad T61p

Then I took my Thinkpad T61p to a WEP-encrypted network.

I tried adding the pptp components; I could not get them to work at all.

I brought the system back to my wired network.

in.telnetd is not running but is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf.

I added sshd using adept.

It will not respond either.

The logs do not give me anything obvious.

What am I missing? What would be the obvious place to look to see why neither sshd nor in.telnet will respond?