check the kernal boot up ring params

NAME
dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer

SYNOPSIS
dmesg [ -c ] [ -n level ] [ -s bufsize ]

used exaple is needed to know wether the wireless eathernet was started at the kernal booting level.

dmesg | grep ipw

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:04:02.0 failed with error -5