.TH TULIP-DIAG 8 "February 18, 2002"
.SH NAME
tulip-diag \- EEPROM setup and diagnostic program for ethernet cards based 
on the Digital DC21x4* chip.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tulip-diag
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBtulip-diag\fP is a program that you can use to diagnose problems with 
ethernet cards based on Digital DC21x4* chips. This includes the following 
chips: Digital and Intel 21040/041/140/142/143/145 and others from Lite-On,
LinkSys, Macronix, ASIX, Compex, STmicro, ADMtek, Davicom and Xircom.
.SH OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose
Verbose mode.
.TP
.B \-q, \-\-quiet
Be very unverbose.
.TP
.B \-# <cardnum>
Use card number <cardnum>.
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-show_all_registers
Print all registers.
.TP
.B \-e, \-\-show-eeprom
Dump EEPROM contents to stdout.
.TP
.B \-E, \-\-emergency-rewrite
Re-write a corrupted EEPROM.
.TP
.B \-p, \-\-base\-address <port>
Specify port to use.
.TP
.B \-A, \-\-Advertise <mediaype>
Advertise media type. Valid Options are: 10baseT, 100baseT4, 100baseTx,
100baseTx-FD, 100baseTx-HD, 10baseT-FD and 10baseHD.
.TP
.B \-F, \-\-new\-interface <interface>
Interface number. Options that make sense are: 10baseT, 10base2, AUI, 
100baseTx, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTx-FDX, 100baseT4, 100baseFx, 100baseFx-FDX, 
MII, HomePNA and Autosense.
.TP
.B \-H, \-\-new\-hwaddress <address>
Set card to a new hardware address.
.TP
.B \-m, \-\-show-mii
Dump MII management registers.
.TP
.B \-R, \-\-reset
Reset the transceiver.
.TP
.B \-T, \-\-test
Do register and SRAM test.
.TP
.B \-w, \-\-write\-EEPROM <values>
Write to the EEPROMS with the specified values. Do not use this, if you do not know what you do!
.TP
.B \-f, \-\-force\-detection
Try to identify the card, even if it is active.
.TP
.B \-t, \-\-chip\-type <card>
Explicitly set the chip. To get all valid numbers, run tulip-diag with the options '-t -1'.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mii-diag (8)
.SH AUTHOR
tulip-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).