Find attached a gzipped FUSE 2.5.3 kernel module for the firmware kernel. (The latest versions don't support 2.4 kernel modules anymore.)

FUSE allows filesystems to be implemented as user applications rather than kernel modules. There are lots of different filesystems built on this, including one that can access your gmail account. I successfully tried it with sshfs and curlftpfs on my Debian system, but I think there are packages for OpenWrt as well.

Pagano, feel free to include this in your next modules.tgz.