Yes, you can update the slave board firmware via ssh , Please give us your skype here , we will add you , and then you can prepare teamviewer for remote checking .
issue was solved.
many thanks to Vito Rao and Dario Hu.
upgraded firmware on slave first from 2.5.0 to 2.5.4 and then to 2.5.8.
did so via ssh - firstly uploaded firmware to /data via scp (please note that slave has different port for ssh - 12346 in my case)
and then