> dmesg can be really long - can anyone tell me what I should be filtering > on and give me some pointers on how to filter? I recall you use grep > for this, but I don't recall all the right parameters, if there's a grep > expert in the house I'd love a pointer or to.
grep foo bar Looks for the text "foo" in file "bar" Put quotes around the text if it has spaces in it e.g grep "foo bar" baz Looks for the text "foo bar" in file "baz" grep is also useful for searching through command outputs. A lame example might be looking in the process list for whether a particular program is running: ps ax | grep foo Looks for "foo" anywhere in the process list. That's probably all you need to know to make it useful. Andy
