Transcend firmware starting at 1.9 altered firmware flash behavior

[Eun]

Hi there, I have a Transcend 16 GB card, unfortunately both versions (0.1 and 0.2) seem not to work. I have waited several minutes but no access point appears. I have no serial console attached so I cant give any feedback.

[Eun]

Seems like update from 1.9 to your image does not work! If you downgrade to 1.6 it works apparently. Wired!

[hillct]

When I first migrated off the Transcend firmware it was from Version 1.8. The likelihood is that in version 1.9 the bootloader arrangement was altered in some way to expect something different either as basic as filenames, or perhaps something more meaningful. Either way, it seems premature to close this issue without addressing it more directly.

[xcasex]

seems like they rebased the entire thing, i cracked my sdwifi card open and its a new hw revision. same issues as @hillct

[cron410]

Does anyone have an older firmware for the newer hardware cards? I screwed up the wifi client and coldn't connect to it. Didn't know about the factory_reset file trick so I upgraded the card to 2.3. Now I can't get shell access by any means. I was successful with autorun_fu.sh running custom commands during the process of flashing an update with the official tool.

Edit: Looks like I was able to flash your firmware just fine on the new card. Not sure why it ended up working. I left your files on the SD, started the official firmware-update tool with a modified autorun.sh in the update tool folder on my computer. Restarted the card a few times giving it about 5 minutes of runtime and it eventually worked.

autorun.sh

#!/bin/sh

echo hello > /mnt/sd/hello.txt
#cp /mnt/sd/busybox-armv5l /sbin/busybox-extra
#chmod a+x /sbin/busybox-extra
#/sbin/busybox-extra telnetd -l /bin/bash &
/sbin/busybox telnetd -l /bin/bash &

cp /hardware.info /mnt/sd
cp /ts_version.inc /mnt/sd
sync