ALTA-DIAG(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      ALTA-DIAG(8)

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						      ALTA-DIAG(8)