vortex-diag8

Usage

Overview

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'.