after a massive roundabout circle of VMware permissions, i still cant modify th efiles in the linux partition of the SD card. without a linux computer/poweruser, how the hell am i supposed to fix the default ip address of 10.10.1.249?
with vmware it seems to deny my ownership of the filesystem and any changes i try to save are denied by a gedit error
I'm sorry for the trouble you are experiencing. The default gateway that you and others are experiencing is an oversight on some changes we made in the last two weeks, but didn't update our testing before we shipped these out to you. I don't know why you didn't get an SD card with your order. Can you PM me your order number so I can follow up on that part?
The fastest way for you to fix this issue is going to be the following:
1. Download and burn a copy of Ubuntu(12.04 or 13.04 will work)
2. Put it into your computer and override the boot sequence so it boots from disk
3. Select boot from disk rather than install. Make sure your sd card is plugged in but not chosen as the boot device.
4. Once it boots up, open a terminal(Click the applications button in the top left and type terminal)
5. Try to see if it automounted the device. Do "cd /mnt/" and "ls". There should be a few things in there and my ubuntu tries to give sd cards a very long name. You can tell if you've found the right one by doing:
"cd <name>" followed by "ls home/pi/*". It should print out a few things and not "no such file or directory". If it isn't there try removing and reinserting the SD card. If that doesn't work you'll need to mount the sd card.
6. Once you've found it, you should be in the root directory("cd /mnt/<devicename>/"). Do these commands:
sudo sed -i 's/10.10.11.249/192.168.1.249/' etc/network/interfaces
sudo sed -i '/s/255.0.0.0/255.255.255.0/' etc/network/interfaces
sudo sed -i '/s/10.1.1.1/192.168.1.1/' etc/network/interfaces
Once that is done, pull the SD card out and try to boot your rPI. You can avoid shutting down the ubuntu prematurely by loading firefox and trying to hit 192.168.1.249 (It takes about 3 minutes for the rPI to fully boot up, so give it a little time before trying this).
Note that you'll need to change the above numbers if any of them don't match your network settings. You can check this in windows with ipconfig or linux with ifconfig. The info you need is the default gateway IP address(most likely 192.168.1.1) and the subnet mask(most likely 255.255.255.0).
If this doesn't help we can probably overnight you an SD card to fix the issue, but unfortunately it is Friday now so that is little good for the weekend. Let me know if the above helps.
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