open a terminal and type
then the root password

there is nothing saved on the computer with fedora 10 and i have permission to reformat. do you think i should reformat the computer so i can setup a root user/password that i can use for the sudo commands?

did you tried su ?
an other option
press CTL_ALT_F1
and login as root

i am signed in under the "root" sign-in now but when i try the syntax:

"sudo route add default gw <My Router IP>"

or

"route add default gw <My Router IP>"

i get the error:

SIOCADDRT: No such process

you did replaced <My Router IP> with the real ip of the router, right ?
something like
10.0.0.1
or whatever the ip is from the router.

I had told you about the Network Manager bug...


I think other friends are not considering your above output with attention..



which should be usually

it can differ from your net to net..

just vim you /etc/sysconfig/networking/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

and manually edit netmask.


I hope this would solve your problem

and then do update through yum

Cheers!!


vim

Sudo is disabled by default in Fedora. I don't know why are you using sudo command being root??

Once you are loggedin with root account then you don't need sudo..


Cheers!!

I replaced <My Router IP> with my ip address and that error had occured...



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the settings in the "/usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt" file is displayed as:

USERCTL= yes|no
PEERDNS= yes|no
IPV6INIT= yes|no
TYPE= Not Listed
DEVICE= Not Listed
BOOTPROTO= none|bootp|dhcp
IPADDR= (Empty)
ONPARENT= yes|no
NM_CONTROLLED= Not Listed
NETMASK= (Empty)
GATEWAY= (Empty)

should there be default values or do I need to enter them?

try to enter them.
Look at the post from
baig #21

ok. will try

when i try to save, i get an error saying that i don't have the correct permissions

you need to be root

i tried is as root and it allowed me to save. i am now getting a box saying "Connection Established" but i still can not access the internet and can not connect to the network.

can you ping 192.168.1.254

Gie the output from
ifconfig and route -n

PING:

Network is Unreachable

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IFCONFIG:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:76:87:A6F
inet addr:192.168.1.60 Bcast:192.168.1.61 Mask:255.255.255.254
inet6 addr: fe80::216:76ff:fe87:a6df/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1768 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:158049 (154.3 KiB) TX bytes:24144 (23.5 KiB)

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:25000 (24.4 KiB) TX bytes:25000 (24.4 KiB)


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ROUTE -n:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface