dmesg has no output

[Natanael Copa]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 18:54 +0800, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
> I am wondering what I am doing wrong on my system.
> 
> I testing with busybox-1.0, busybox-1.2.0 (patched),  uclibc 0.9.28,
> and kernel 2.6.16, 2.6.17-2. Basically my problem is that I get no
> output from dmesg.
> 
>          # dmesg
>          # echo $?
>           0
> 
> 'cat /proc/kmsg' also shows nothing. I am ***NOT*** saying
> this is a busybox problem but perhaps someone in this list has
> a pointer what are the things I could look at to solve it.
> 
> My areas of suspicion :
> 
> 1. My kernel CONFIGs. Is there anything I have to set there
>     to get 'dmesg' working ?

Make sure you have printk enabled in your kernel.

General setup  --->
  Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)  --->
    [*]   Enable support for printk