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EPIC-DIAG(8) System Manager's Manual EPIC-DIAG(8)

NAME

epic-diag - EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for SMC EtherPowerII ethernet cards and others.

SYNOPSIS

epic-diag [options]

DESCRIPTION

epic-diag is a program that you can use to diagnose problems with ethernet cards based on the SMC83C170 series EPIC/100 chip, as used on the SMC EtherPowerII boards.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

Show summary of options.
Show version of program.
Verbose mode.
Be very unverbose.
-# <cardnum>
Use card number <cardnum>.
Print all registers.
Dump EEPROM contents to stdout.
Re-write a corrupted EEPROM.
Specify port to use.
Advertise media type. Valid Options are: 10baseT, 100baseT4, 100baseTx, 100baseTx-FD, 100baseTx-HD, 10baseT-FD and 10baseHD.
Interface number. Options that make sense are: 10baseT, 10base2, AUI, 100baseTx, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTx-FDX, 100baseT4, 100baseFx, 100baseFx-FDX, MII and Autosense.
Set card to a new hardware address.
Dump MII management registers.
Reset the transceiver.
Do register and SRAM test.
Write to the EEPROMS with the specified values. Do not use this, if you do not know what you do!
Try to identify the card, even if it is active.
Explicitly set the chip. To get all valid numbers, run epic-diag with the options '-t -1'.

SEE ALSO

mii-diag(8)

AUTHOR

epic-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