Need Help Please

[Superman3332001]

I was wondering if there is anyone who could tell me how to get a list of the devices that boot up when linux starts and how slow it down so I can see what is not working and what is.

Thank u in advance

[sybil]

Open a terminal and type in the command:
dmesg | less
You can then see the output of dmesg screen by screen. More info on dmesg:
http://www.bellevuelinux.org/dmesg.html
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue59/nazario.html

[Superman3332001]

Will it say Error or should I be looking for something specific. Sorry I am really new to linux

[sybil]

lol - me, too - so it'll be like the blind leading the blind. It might help to know which hardware is in question. The second link describes the booting process which may help you - otherwise I have my notes which walks you through the steps in booting. There's other ways to check your hardware - ie lspci to list your pci devices. If you're looking at your network card, you can use ifconfig eth0 (if it's ethernet) etc.

[Superman3332001]

ok I ran ifconfig eth0 and here is what I got.

Linkencop:ethernet HWadrr 00:e0:4C:9D:21:75
Broadcast Multicast MTU:150 Metric:1
RX Packets:0 Errors:0 Dropped:0 Overruns:0 Frames 0
TX Packets:0 Errors:0 Dropped:0 Overruns:0 carrier 0
Collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
Rxbytes:0(0.0 b) Txbytes:0 (0.0 b)
interrupt:16 Base address:0xec00

[sybil]

Sorry, I missed this. It looks like your network card is there, but are you connected to anything?

[Superman3332001]

Just my cable modem to my Nic card is all.