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)