Now dmesg is a as the system boots log file as well if you add any usb or say a cell phone or other items to the system it will give you the name of the item
Code:
[90932.357884] usb 1-8: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6860
[90932.357890] usb 1-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[90932.357893] usb 1-8: Product: Android
[90932.357896] usb 1-8: Manufacturer: Android
[90932.357899] usb 1-8: SerialNumber: 8w033fe8
Android cell phone listed above. came from the dmesg output
Code:
[ 2.411574] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI
[ 2.411578] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 2.418032] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
as you can see from above a network card and floppy drive. It gives you alot of information just learning what you have and how to read the information.
its a very large file as well as the /var/log/kern.log
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