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There is not a lot of documentation out there about running OpenWrt on the Gateworks platform.  Specifically the gw2348-4 board that I’ve been playing with.  Mounting the CF card is not hard but there are a few prerequisites.  First I’ll assume that you have some form of network connection running.  After that, you’ll need to start with:

root@OpenWrt:# opkg update

After you’ve updated the list of packages, you’ll need to install some packages:

root@OpenWrt:# opkg install kmod-ata-ixp4xx-cf kmod-fs-ext3 e2fstools

Those will install a few dependencies as well.  After all of that is installed, you might want to reset for good measure.  When it comes back up, you should be able to see the CF card as /dev/sda.  Try formatting it as ext3 with the following command:

root@OpenWrt:# mke2fs -j /dev/sda1

That is assuming that you already had a partition on there of some sort.  After that is completed, you should be able to mount it:

root@OpenWrt:# mkdir /mnt/cf
root@OpenWrt:# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf
root@OpenWrt:# df -h

You should get something like this:

Having a CompactFlash card in this router is a great advantage over the WRT54G series.  I know those can be hacked with an SD card but I’ve messed around with some of those quite a bit and not had very good luck with it.  This board is made for this specifically and worked right away without any screwing around.  If you prefer vfat partitions instead of ext3, do a little grepping and searching the opackages for vfat and dostools.  That should be enough to get you started.