diff -ruw fuse-2.3.0.org/lib/mount.c fuse-2.3.0/lib/mount.c
--- fuse-2.3.0.org/lib/mount.c	2005-02-02 12:14:44.000000000 +0100
+++ fuse-2.3.0/lib/mount.c	2005-08-26 09:23:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
     See the file COPYING.LIB.
 */
 
+#include <config.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_FEATURES_H
+#include <features.h>
+#endif
+/* Remove this when config.h is updated with HAVE_FEATURES_H */
+#include <features.h>
+
 #include "fuse.h"
 #include "fuse_compat.h"
 
@@ -92,10 +99,11 @@
         return -1;
     }
 
-#ifndef USE_UCLIBC
-    pid = fork();
-#else
+#if defined(__UCLIBC__) && \
+  (!defined(__ARCH_HAS_MMU__) && !defined(__UCLIBC_HAS_MMU__))
     pid = vfork();
+#else
+    pid = fork();
 #endif
     if(pid == -1) {
         perror("fuse: fork() failed");
diff -ruw fuse-2.3.0.org/util/fusermount.c fuse-2.3.0/util/fusermount.c
--- fuse-2.3.0.org/util/fusermount.c	2005-05-17 18:54:17.000000000 +0200
+++ fuse-2.3.0/util/fusermount.c	2005-08-26 09:20:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@
  */
 
 #include <config.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_FEATURES_H
+#include <features.h>
+#endif
+/* Remove this when config.h is updated with HAVE_FEATURES_H */
+#include <features.h>
+
+#ifdef __UCLIBC__
+/* Most embedded systems with uclibc have read-only root filesystem. Should
+ * replace this into a parameter --disable-mtab instead */
+#define READONLY_MTAB 1
+#endif
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -40,7 +51,12 @@
 #define FUSE_COMMFD_ENV         "_FUSE_COMMFD"
 
 #define FUSE_DEV_OLD "/proc/fs/fuse/dev"
+#ifdef __UCLIBC__
+/* /dev is mounted as devfs in OpenWRT, and device is created here */
+#define FUSE_DEV_NEW "/dev/misc/fuse"
+#else
 #define FUSE_DEV_NEW "/dev/fuse"
+#endif
 #define FUSE_VERSION_FILE_OLD "/proc/fs/fuse/version"
 #define FUSE_CONF "/etc/fuse.conf"
 #define FUSE_MAJOR 10
@@ -89,7 +105,7 @@
     return res;
 }
 
-#ifndef USE_UCLIBC
+#ifndef READONLY_MTAB
 /* use a lock file so that multiple fusermount processes don't try and
    modify the mtab file at once! */
 static int lock_mtab()
@@ -701,7 +717,12 @@
     return fd;
 }
 
+#ifdef __UCLIBC__
+/* /dev is writeable on openwrt distribution */
+#define FUSE_TMP_DIRNAME "/dev/.fuse_devXXXXXX"
+#else
 #define FUSE_TMP_DIRNAME "/tmp/.fuse_devXXXXXX"
+#endif
 #define FUSE_TMP_DEVNAME "/fuse"
 
 static int try_open_new_temp(dev_t devnum, char **devp)
@@ -761,17 +782,19 @@
         pid_t pid;
 
         fd = try_open_fuse_device(devp);
+	//fprintf(stderr, "open_fuse_device: try_open_fuse_device() ret=%d\n", fd);
         if (fd >= 0)
             return fd;
 
-#ifndef USE_UCLIBC
-        pid = fork();
-#else
+#if defined(__UCLIBC__) && \
+  (!defined(__ARCH_HAS_MMU__) && !defined(__UCLIBC_HAS_MMU__))
         pid = vfork();
+#else
+	pid = fork();
 #endif
         if (pid == 0) {
             setuid(0);
-            execl("/sbin/modprobe", "/sbin/modprobe", "fuse", NULL);
+            execl("/sbin/insmod", "/sbin/insmod", "fuse", NULL);
             exit(1);
         }
         if (pid != -1)