man alta-diag (Administration système) - EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for ethernet cards based on the chip Sundance ST201 "Alta".
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 aviable 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
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).