Comment 22 for bug 259214

hmm... ok hunted around and got this file

/usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/generate-interfaces.pl.gz .

ran it and it gave whole lot of stuff which I have included as an attachment

The main part I put in the /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth1 inet static
    address 192.168.1.3
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    broadcast 192.168.1.255
    gateway 192.168.1.1

Please note that the /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf managed is put to true during this whole time.