Cannot get Wired Connection to work on Linux mint

Hi,
My laptop is able to connect to wifi easily but is not working for wired connection.
this is what I get when I try ifconfig:

surbhi@surbhi-Precision-M2800 ~ $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 34:e6:d7:0a:21:ad
inet6 addr: fe80::36e6:d7ff:fe0a:21ad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2119 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:189 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:493257 (493.2 KB) TX bytes:47092 (47.0 KB)
Interrupt:20 Memory:f7d00000-f7d20000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17122 (17.1 KB) TX bytes:17122 (17.1 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:00:0b:4c:b8:91
inet6 addr: fe80::8200:bff:fe4c:b891/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:444 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:110822 (110.8 KB) TX bytes:75539 (75.5 KB)
My personal thought is that my eth0 does not have an IP address setup. But I thought that it would happen automatically.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks