WINBOND-DIAG   (8) manpage
WINBOND-DIAG
8
February 18, 2002
  • NAME
      winbond-diag - EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for Winbond w89c840 based Ethernet cards.
  • SYNOPSIS
      winbond-diag [ options ]
  • DESCRIPTION
      winbond-diag is a program that you can use to diagnose problems with Ethernet cards based on the Winbond w89c840 chip.
  • 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 winbond-diag with the options '-t -1'.
  • SEE ALSO
      mii-diag (8)
  • AUTHOR
      winbond-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).
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