Re: blackberry support (was Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458)

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

Rafael Varela Pet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> El lun, 21-04-2008 a las 15:02 -0400, Carl Fink escribió:
>
> > Two, I use my RIM BlackBerry Curve as a tethered modem.  I hear
> > there's
> > support for this in Linux these days.  This one, I confess, I haven't
> > even
> > researched, but if anyone just happens to have a pointer to a HOWTO it
> > would
> > be appreciated. 
>
> As far as I know, part of the modem functionality is provided by
> Desktop Manager (a Windows-only desktop application), so unless somebody
> manages to port it to Linux we won't be able to use a Blackberry as a
> tethered modem. 

Depends on how you tether.  MacOSX works fine with Bluetooth tethering 
to my Pearl with no special software.  Thus, whatever they've done 
should be able to be done on Linux.

Tethering via USB is more problematic, at least that's my understanding 
of it anyway.  For Blackberry products.

Nate