Network is unreachable, fresh ubuntu 10.10

[kantplayalik]

apologies in advance for my noobishness ;p

here's the deal. I decided to try ubuntu 10.10 on virtualbox for my win7 ultimate box. I liked it, so i installed it.

for some reason, it won't recognize my wired connection.

i'm connecting to cable via a router, however i cannot even ping it.

when i open a terminal and ping my router (192.168.2.1 when i log in from windows)

i get a network is unreachable error.

i've been searching for a while now, tried editing my /etc/network/interfaces file...

originally it just had the lo entry, so i added an eth0 entry...but no change

when i ifconfig it shows eth0 but no inet addr

when i lspci, i see my nic listed, so i'm assuming it's detecting it...

i'm lost at this point, so i thought i'd put this out there and see what you guys had to say...

thanks in advance

[kantplayalik]

no one has any ideas ???