On windows, I use a bluetooth usb adapter+software to "dial up" through my cell phone to my cellular provider's data network. Basically I load the software, double click the icon designated for my phone(this enables bluetooth and pairs the pc and phone), then click the internet button on the software interface, then click "connect" on the net connection dialog window that comes up.
I use these settings to connect at that dialog window...
Username: myphonenumber
Password: none
number to dial: #777
My phone is an Alltel Blackberry Pearl 2 (8130) smartphone/pda. Cellular provider is Alltel. The number used to dial up to the Alltel Data Network(internet) is #777, as stated above.
It's fairly straight-forward and simple. I've toyed with the ubuntu bluetooth program...but can't seem to make sense of it, nor will it try to pair with my phone. My phone finds my pc...and my pc recognizes the bluetooth usb adapter and shows my phone in the connect list...but that's where I get stuck.
I know it's possible to use this method to connect to the net on Ubuntu...I just don't know how to do it. I found some links to various walk-throughs...but they were rather complicated.
I'm 100% brand new to Ubuntu...I've used windows since I first started messing with computers back in the early 3.1 days. I don't know much of anything about linux...but I'm dying to learn, and try out this nice looking OS.
Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated...and please, keep in mind that I am a complete and total 'newb' to anything linux, try to keep it simple for me.
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