Thanks for the link jamon.

The wiki page for the Trendnet TS-I300W device actually says that it's based on the RDC3210, i.e. the same 486-compatible chip as our thingies. In fact the specs are rather similar, which makes me wonder whether it isn't just another clone, but in a different case. The partial sources and the unknown bootloader suggest that as well. The processor is slightly faster though, and the Linux kernel is slightly older.

The best thing is to take “any thing” and to fix it to your pleasure.

In my case, I have decided that openwrt is everything what I need, it has all the necessary services for a good NAT (samba, NFS, FTP, HTTP). I liked to put kernel 2,6 but WHD has not supported proprietors drivers and it is beyond my knowledge. In any case, kernel that comes with the WHD look to have a bug. Many failures of transference with my HD-USB and a Segmentation Fault in fast accesses to disc IDE. At the moment I have not been able to fix it, can be a hardware failure.

Did any of you find a binary of lighttpd and PHP5 for OpenWrt Kamikaze x86 ?

...maybe even a mysql, postgresql and so on.....just for testing to see what theese boxes can handle :-)

Sounds great. 486/66 was a nice machine. I have been running a server with very simular specs back a few years ago. Worked great - even with Apache :-)