Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn how-to: stuck on page 3

I'm stuck on page 4.

I was able to successfully install ssh.

I then type:

vi /etc/network/interfaces

I'm then greeted with the next step which is to I guess type in the IP, gateway, etc.

The only thing is, I see this:

~
~
~
~

When I attempt to go there via hitting enter on the keyboard nothing happens.

Am I already supposed to see the network settings there?

If so, what might be going wrong? Perhaps the driver for my NIC is not install or needs to be installed?

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /etc/network

and

Code:

ifconfig

?