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I have a Motorola W385 with Verizon service. At long last, I have successfully tethered it to my eee.
1. First, you have to hack your phone. See randyman's excellent instructions.
2. Next, configure your bluetooth device. Here is an excellent forum post on this topic. I followed the instructions down to where it says "Next up are the PPP settings".
3. Next, install wvdial. Here are some instructions. The wvdial.conf script didn't work for me, though (a couple of typos, I think). Anyway, here's a script that did the trick:
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem =/dev/rfcomm0
Phone = #777
Username = 10digitnumber@vzw3g.com
Password = verizon
New PPPD = yes
Stupid Mode = 1
Idle = 0
4. At one point, I had difficulty getting the dongle in 'discover' mode. This little command solved the problem right away:
sudo hciconfig hci0 piscan
5. To connect, open a terminal window and type:
sudo wvdial
6. Once the connection is made, simply start the browser and it works! You have to leave the terminal window open while you're online. When you're done, close the browser, then type Ctrl+C in the terminal window to disconnect. Works like a charm!
I might have done a re-start or two along the way, not sure where in the sequence, however.
More details here.
Last edited by kwater2 (2008-03-08 10:02:14 pm)
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Excellent summary. I have this working with a LG VX9800. I can use Skype and stream Pandora radio, watch Youtube, etc!
I found that I had to start dbus and bluetooth services manually at each startup.
Also, I wanted to click an icon to connect instead of opening a console and typing sudo wvdial.
Here's what I did:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=54478#p54478
Autostart dbus and bluetooth on dongle connect by lilphil
"so in summary, in order to get bluetooth to start when the dongle is plugged in, one must create a file on /dev/sda1 (I used a bootable usb stick, I am not sure howto bypass the union - anyone?) called /etc/fastservices with the contents
dbus
bluetooth
"
I had to use a combination of the two easy mode icon adders, first the launch tools to make an icon for
/usr/bin/xterm wvdial -hold
then emeditor to change the command to:
sudo /usr/bin/xterm wvdial -hold
the hold attribute keeps the xterm window open to see the status and you can disconnect the session with ctrl-c.
Emeditor screenshot:
Final product:
Last edited by eeeficionado (2008-04-08 1:55:30 am)
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