So the very first thing you must do to set your network is see if you can PING a device and PING-ing a device will obviously mean that you have an IP address.

If you don't have an IP address, you need to take one step back and actually assign an IP address to your network card.

The next issue that you may be faced with is name resolution, and if you turn back to the Chapter 7 you can see how to determine whether it's the DNS that's the problem or perhaps something else.