NAME

       vortex-diag - EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for the 3Com Vortex series.

SYNOPSIS

       vortex-diag [options]

DESCRIPTION

       vortex-diag is a program that you can use to diagnose problems with the 3Com Vortex series. Those include
       all cards which are based on the 3Com Vortex, Boomerang and Cyclone chips.

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 vortex-diag with the options '-t -1'.

SEE ALSO

       mii-diag(8)

AUTHOR

       vortex-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                                 VORTEX-DIAG(8)