NAME
alta-diag - EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for ethernet cards
based on the chip Sundance ST201 "Alta".
SYNOPSIS
alta-diag [options]
DESCRIPTION
alta-diag is a program that you can use to diagnose problems with
ethercards based the Sundance ST201 "Alta" Chip as well as
reconfiguring it.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (‘-’). A summary of options is
included below.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-V, --version
Show version of program.
-v, --verbose
Verbose mode.
-D Debug mode.
-q, --quiet
Be very unverbose.
-a, --all
Print all registers.
-e, --show-eeprom
Dump EEPROM contents to stdout.
-E, --emergency-rewrite
Re-write a corrupted EEPROM.
-p, --port-base <port>
Specify port to use.
-# <cardnum>
Use card number <cardnum>.
-A, --Advertise <mediaype>
Advertise media type. Valid Options are: 10baseT, 100baseTx,
100baseTx-FD, 100baseTx-HD, 10baseT-FD and 10baseHD.
-F, --new-interface <interface>
Interface number. Options that make sense are: 10baseT,
100baseTx, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTx-FDX, 100baseT4, 100baseFx,
100baseFx-FDX, MII and Autosense.
-H, --new-hwaddress <address>
Set card to a new hardware address.
-m, --show-mii
Dump MII management registers.
-R, --reset
Reset the transceiver.
-T, --test
Do register and SRAM test.
-t, --chip-type <type>
Use chip type. Only available option is "Sundance Technology
Alta", but more may come.
-w, --write-EEPROM <values>
Write to the EEPROMS with the specified values. Do not use this,
if you do not know what you do!
-# [card-number]
Specify card to work on.
-B Dumps the flash to the screen.
-L <file>
Load file and write it into the flash.
-S <file>
Saves the flash to a file. -t, --chip-type <card> Explicitly
set the chip. To get all valid numbers, run alta-diag with the
options ’-t -1’.
SEE ALSO
mii-diag(8)
AUTHOR
alta-diag was written and is still maintained by Donald Becker
<becker@scyld.com>. This manual page was written by Alain Schroeder
<alain@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others).
February 18, 2002