problem detecting ethernet card

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Sunday 09 October 2005 02:03 pm Kurt Granroth kindly wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > 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?
>
> For the record, there are a few generally used conventions for
> things like this.  If, for instance, you see something like:
>
> # /etc/init.d/server start
>
> This is something that you run at a prompt.  The '#' means that you
> must be running this as root.  Everything that follows is what you
> need to type.
>
> I admit that this can be a mite confusing for newbies since the '#'
> character is also the delimiter for comment lines in many config
> files.  Over time, though, you'll recognize things like 'echo' and
> '>>' being shell constructs and since '/etc/modules' is a file, it
> pretty much HAS to be a command prompt.
>
> There is a variation of the above that you'll often see:
>
> $ touch this-file
>
> This is also something that you run at a prompt.  In this case,
> though, the '$' tells you that you should be running it as a normal
> user and not as root.
>
> Kurt

Thank you, Kurt.