cellphone as modem for MAC. . .

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.bluetooth (More info?)

In article <BCBC37DD.E1B6%enzosf@pacbell.net>,
Enzo Lombard-Quintero <enzosf@pacbell.net> wrote:

> I have been with Cingular and have a bluetooth cellphone which I would like
> to use as a dial-up modem with my mac laptop.
>
> I am planning to switch to T-Mobile, but can't get any specific info about a
> phone recommendation for this use. They say there are no mac drivers but
> that the generic bluetooth driver will usually locate the cellphone. This
> was the case with my last phone,
>
> HOWEVER I couldn't figure out how to configure it so that the phone dialed
> my dial-up #. It keeps trying to access the local browser to browse
> directly from the phone.
>
> If anyone has any idea of where to go even for resources that would be much
> appreciated.
>
> thanks
> enzosf

I am using a Sony Ericsson T610 with T-mobile and a PB17 running OS10.3.
I followed the direction found on this link to dial into Access-4-Free
and it works (although slow) I use the Bluetooth modem settings.

http://homepage.mac.com/jrc/contrib/tzones/

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