From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 18:16:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886CC37B71C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2G2G2e93125; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:16:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200103160216.f2G2G2e93125@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: richard childers Cc: mschwartz@crosswinds.net, freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Internal Modems In-reply-to: Message from richard childers of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:58:23 PST." <3AB0E69F.331D1194@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:16:02 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG richard childers writes: > Examine the boot messages and see what sort of hardware your kernel detects; this > is where > I would start. > > The messages splashed across the screen too fast to read, never mind copy down, > can be seen > again by using the dmesg(1) command. Also /var/db/dmesg.boot keeps a snapshot of what dmesg looked like at boot time as other messages may fill the buffer and push the boot state out. Can also use the Scroll Lock key to pause the boot messages. And once paused the Page Up and Page Down keys will let you move up to that which has scrolled off the screen. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message