It displays al of the start-up messages which you see when Linux fires up. Try: dmesg > ~/stuff Not have a look at ~/stuff. You'll see exactly what happens at start-up time. Another file to browse on a regular basis is /var/log/messages Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "tommmmie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 23/02/2000 08:42:58 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: RE: [newbie] Modem is up and Running THANK YOU!! what does dmesg do for you??? im having a hay day with my modem... pulling my hair out.. tommmmie > -----Original Message----- > From: maxtorator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 2:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Modem is up and Running THANK YOU!! > > > To all who replied: > > I must send a big THANK YOU to all that recently replied to my > modem woes. I > had to finally just go over to my friends house and try the tips > that you all > sent me. I found that "dmesg" is a very useful command. We used > that to see > if he was getting errors and found that the modem was not set up > properly from > just seeing that log. It was a very simple "fix" to get it > working. But arent > all of the problems simple. It seems that we ourselves tend to complicate > things more than they really are. Microsoft has, in a sense, > damaged all of > our minds. But mine is making progress with leaps and bounds > since I have seen > the light in Linux. > > > > Maxtor > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.maxtors.com >