NIC Settings for IBM Thinkpad T30 / wired & wireless

[SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux]

Hello 
I am struggling with proper NIC settings !

The Thinkpad has 2 NIC's:

Prism 2.5 Wavelan
Intel PRO / 100VE

Currently I am able to access WWW and it seems to be:
Wired Ethernet (eth0)

Very curious:
>From Connection Information under the "Double Screen" in the upper panel
I get showed all IP's set to ZERO's ?!?
How comes ?

My /etc/network/interfaces shows:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

auto eth1

iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.144.222
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.144.120
wireless-essid [my essid]

auto wlan0

Well I see: There are no entries for wlan0 and 
wired I do not need the essid !?

Or do I messed up again ???

Wireless is working as wlan0 under eth1 ...
and eth0 shall be wired ???


Normally I do set individual IP's for these 2 NIC's and

wired = 232
wireless = 222 

Data provided for this Gutsy installation was 232, netmask, 
gateway and the 2 DNS's. !  

Please advise and hint to my proper settings. 

TIA & cheers, svobi