ISL3893 Recovery

• remove the power
• press and hold the reset button
• Apply the power
• release the reset button.

When you are one of the lucky console cable users you should see:

Rescueing Boot for the ISL3893, version 0.5.2.0
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Intersil Americas Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MAC Address: 00.60.b3.13.36.b7
Forcing soft reset from Bootloaderú
Rescueing Boot for the ISL3893, version 0.5.2.0
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Intersil Americas Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MAC Address: ***************
Entering recovery mode.
Trying ethernet...
Using Static IP address 192.0.2.93
apipa: got IP address 169.254.54.183
dhcp: got IP address 192.0.2.93, leasetime = -1, t1 = 4294966, t2 = 4294966

Strange... no dhcp .. after another go I got:

Rescueing Boot for the ISL3893, version 0.5.2.0
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Intersil Americas Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MAC Address: 00.60.b3.13.36.b7
Forcing soft reset from Bootloaderú
Rescueing Boot for the ISL3893, version 0.5.2.0
Copyright (C) 1993-2002 Intersil Americas Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MAC Address: *************
Entering recovery mode.
Trying ethernet...
Using Static IP address 192.0.2.93
apipa: got IP address 169.254.54.183
dhcp: got IP address 192.168.1.240, leasetime = 432000, t1 = -268410696, t2 = 47 1923431

Conclusion: 192.0.2.93 should always work, dhcp works less reliable.