EEPRO100-DIAG(8) System Manager's Manual EEPRO100-DIAG(8)
NAME
eepro100-diag - EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for Intel EtherExpress Pro100B, and EEPro PCI 10+ ethernet cards.
SYNOPSIS
eepro100-diag [options]
DESCRIPTION
eepro100-diag is a program that you can use to diagnose problems with ethernet cards based the "Speedo3" chip series: the i82557, '558 and
'559. These chips are used on the EtherExpress Pro100B, and EEPro PCI 10+.
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.
-q, --quiet
Be very unverbose.
-# <cardnum>, --card_num <cardnum>
Use card number <cardnum>.
-a, --show_all_registers
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.
-A, --Advertise <mediaype>
Advertise media type. Valid Options are: 10baseT, 100baseT4, 100baseTx, 100baseTx-FD, 100baseTx-HD, 10baseT-FD and 10baseHD.
-F, --new-interface <interface>
Interface number. Options that make sense are: 10baseT, 10base2, AUI, 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.
-w, --write-EEPROM <values>
Write to the EEPROMS with the specified values. Do not use this, if you do not know what you do!
-f, --force-detection
Try to identify the card, even if it is active.
-t, --chip-type <card>
Explicitly set the chip. To get all valid numbers, run eepro100-diag with the options '-t -1'.
SEE ALSO
mii-diag(8)
AUTHOR
eepro100-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 EEPRO100-DIAG(8)