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its the stock alfa firmware, but i get nothing from the serial cable, i will try again from the serial and see if i can get anything.

I don't what i am doing wrong, i enabled ssh in the web interface as /etc/init.d/dropbear start does not work, then once i had ssh access i couldn't use scp to transfer upgrade.bin, and i could not install scp support as ipkg is 'not found'. I started a apache2 instance with upgrade.bin, and managed to use wget within the routers shell to get upgrade.bin into the /tmp/ folder, then i issued sysupgrade -n -v /tmp/upgrade.bin and the returned -sh: sysupgrade not found. I can't get anything on the serial cable, i have tried 2, both are verified working with the router on these forums. double and triple checked my settings and still nothing, anyone else had this problem? here is exactly what i get in the shell when i try to sysupgrade: sysupgrade -n -v /tmp/upgrade.bin -sh: sysupgrade: not found

I can only get telnet access, does that matter?

hi, I have a Alfa AP121u with the stock alfa firmware, i have searched the forums but can't seem to find if this firmware needs a serial flash or not? if i telnet in (using user/pass: root/80546334) and issue uname -a i get "Linux ALFA 2.6.31--LSDK-9.2.0_U10.1020 #2 Tue Apr 3 15:00:06 CST 2012 mips GNU/Linux" and if i log into the web interface i get alfa login (see attached picture) my question is: Can i just scp my upgrade.bin over the /tmp/ and sysupgrade -v -n //tmp/upgrade.bin? or do i need a serial flash. I have tried to access via serial using two different usb-uart cables and double checking all the connections, settings etc and i get nothing in putty.

If you email crucial wifi (google them) directly, he can sort you out with a AP51 in the UK, for a reasonable shipping cost.