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
Maybe you missed my suggestion, so here it is again:
You could also burn an Ubuntu live CD or create a live USB stick. Boot Ubuntu, mount the sd card, edit the file, ...