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| STARFIRE-DIAG(8) |
System Manager's Manual |
STARFIRE-DIAG(8) |
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'.
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).
