problem detecting ethernet card

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

> I've been working to get my new DSL connection working and am
> having trouble getting my ethernet card autodetected. It's a plain
> vanilla Intel chipset using the eepro100 driver. My system has the
> driver, but it doesn't load the module automatically. Alan figured
> out that if we do "modprobe eepro100" then "ifup eth0" I'll get a
> connection. But if we reboot, that detection/configuration is lost
> and has to be done all over again.
>
> 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

> The '#' in that was supposed to represent the prompt.  Type the
> following echo eepro100 >> /etc/modules
> at a command prompt.  At least I'm pretty sure that's what the
> poster meant. Never used Debian myself.
>

I did it and it seemed to work, then it did it again- lost the module 
after a reboot and I had to do:
modprobe eepro100
ifup eth0

Checked the /etc/modules file and the line for eepro100 was gone. 
Anybody know why it decided to disappear after I had put it in there?

Thanks,

Siri Amrit