The gui network doesn’t work, I don’t know why.. so, we shall be using the console way..

1. cd /etc/network/
2. sudo kate interfaces .. note that, kate is the text editor in KDE.. if u don’t have kate installed, use any other text editor like gedit..
3. provide ur password..
4. add the following lines of code in ‘interfaces’

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address 10.111.4.114
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.111.4.2

auto eth0

Note that the first 2 lines r for the local addresses.. and, initially, as with me, u will find only the first two lines.. add the next 4 lines, with ur IP in address, subnet mask in netmast and default gateway in gateway..

by now, u r almost half way done.. only the nameservers need to be configured…

now, check out ur network status by going to /etc/init.d

code: cd /etc/init.d/

now start the networking service with the super user privileges:

sudo ./networking start

u will get an error message like, can’t find resolv.conf .. it is the configuration file which stores ur nameserver settings.. if u don’t get any error messages, u can check if ur network is working by pinging to some address like :

ping 10.111.4.60

if u get replies, ur network has been configured, else, u will have to add the nameserver settings in resolv.conf (if u earlier got a message like resolv.conf not found..).. the procedure for this is:

cd /etc

sudo kate resolv.conf

now, add any no. of nameservers in the following format:

nameserver 144.16.192.2
nameserver 144.16.192.55

All the configuration finished, u now have to start the networking service by going to /etc/init.d/

code: cd /etc/init.d/

sudo ./networking start

Finally, u can check ur network by pinging to any IP .. Congrats!!

If u have proxy servers, u can configure them in console by setting the $http_proxy environmental variable..

code: export http_proxy = http://144.16.192.245:8080

where 144.16.192.245 is the host and 8080 is the port ..