dmesg > filename will work as a rule.
I usually do
dmesg | more
which also does what you want.
The command line in unix, because of the ability to pipe stuff, has a
real beauty that a gui doesn't (this I'm saying as someone who, a mere
eight months ago, was a diehard Mac fanatic).
Also, if you wanted to see only the stuff about eth0 you could:
dmesg | grep eth0
(print out only those lines in dmesg that contain the phrase eth0)
which on my system would get:
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0xdc00, 00 40 05 51 a7 8c, IRQ 9.
eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
eth0: MII transceiver found at MDIO address 0, config 1000 status 782d.
eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0, previously advertising 01e1.
eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0 (0).
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote:
> Is there a way to capture a screen dump into a file? When I dmesg I
> can't read the screen fast enough. Where does everything goes? Thanks
> a lot, Ronald.
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