NAME

       starfire-diag  -  EEPROM  setup  and  diagnostic  program  for ethernet cards based on the
       Adaptec 6915 "Starfire" chip.

SYNOPSIS

       starfire-diag [options]

DESCRIPTION

       starfire-diag is a program that you  can  use  to  diagnose  problems  with  Adaptec  6915
       "Starfire" ethernet cards.

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>
              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, --base-address <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 starfire-diag with the
              options '-t -1'.

SEE ALSO

       mii-diag(8)

AUTHOR

       starfire-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                        STARFIRE-DIAG(8)