Making sense of dmesg output

[Rick Pettit <rpettit@vailsys.com>]

	Hello again,
		I am interested in documentation that will help me make
sense of the output of dmesg.  When I see various hardware components not
configured I would like to know right away what types of things need to be
done to get them configured.  I know this is a newbie question if there's
ever been one, but if someone could point me in the direction of some good
docs to help me make sense of dmesg it would be great.  Thanks again for
all your help.

							- Rick Pettit