> Worse than that, if this is the original netgear "firmware", I have no idea > how close to a normal debian system it ever was, what the actual hardware > is, or whether that hardware is supported by debian itself (vs only with > netgear modifications). A quick google suggests that the netgear > modifications are extensive enough that the device would no longer have its > original functionality, but I don't know if it would be possible to turn it > into a generic server rather than a "netgear duo appliance".
At least OpenWRT seems to support this device, so there's a recent Linux kernel which supports that hardware. Stefan