Fibble.org: Use your BlackBerry Pearl as a Bluetooth Modem under OS X:
Posted by: grant on Wed, 13 September 2006 9:41 AM -08:00

1.  Download the script here. Please Right-Click and Choose ‘Save As’.

2.  Copy the script into /Library/Modem Scripts.

3.  If you’ve already paired your Pearl with your Mac, open Bluetooth Preferences, Select your Pearl from the list of devices and press ‘Configure…’.

(If you haven’t, choose ‘Set up Bluetooth Device’ – the following dialogs will be shown after you’ve paired your phone with your Mac. Make sure your Pearl doesn’t require a password for your mac to connect to it – the ‘Trusted Connection’ option for the pairing should be set to ‘Yes’ on your phone, not ‘Ask’.)

4.  Make sure ‘Access the Internet with your phone’s data connection’ is checked. Also, make sure ‘Use a direct, higher speed connection’ is selected.

Click Continue.

5.  In the Modem Script pulldown on the following screen, Select ‘BlackBerry 8100’. Use the following settings for the other fields, then click Continue:
Username, Password: leave blank
GPRS CID: *99***1#

6.  Open the Internet Connect application. Select the Bluetooth icon at the top. Under Phone Number, put your APN (for T-Mobile and the BlackBerry Unlimited plan, I use wap.voicestream.com, for Cingular it’s “wap.cingular”). Type a username and password (I use guest/guest, for Cingular you’ll use “WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM” as the username and “CINGULAR1” as the password) in the appropriate fields.

This is clearly pretty old technology, but I haven’t had to bother with it until recently, so I finally tried it and… WOW!  It’s awesome!

A couple of weeks ago, I did an oral presentation for a proposal, and one of the guys wanted to know if there was a way we could have email access from the office we were in, knowing there’d be no wifi.  I knew there was, but I didn’t have my powerbook at the time.  After realizing that my Airport Express wasn’t working, I realized that it was also a PITA not having wireless in my OWN HOUSE (my new Airport Extreme hadn’t yet arrived)!

So, within about 3 minutes, I followed the six steps on this page and it worked REALLY WELL!

\o/ technology!