problem detecting ethernet card

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Saturday 08 October 2005 10:41 pm Jay kindly wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > In Vector, based on Slackware, I was able to put "modprobe
> > eepro100" into /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and the settings held after a
> > reboot. What would be an equivalent file or command to use in
> > Debian?
>
> # echo "eepro100" >> /etc/modules

Do I put # echo "eepro100" into /etc/modules? 
Or is that something I do on the command line? 
Does the # comment-out something?

Sorry to be so ignorant, I really need things spelled out for me.

Thanks,

Siri Amrit