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)