IRC on Bell CDMA 1X Blackberry

[Yaron2]

[NJBlackBerry]

[finch]

[grinthock]

I'm on a 7750 CDMA blackberry, and from reading here, it looks like I can't use mobile TCP/IP (What the hell!), due to my employ, i'm provided the unit, so I can't pick my provider.

What solutions are there to use IRC and items like that on my unit?

[bfrye]

Please search, but some options include 4.0 OS, BWC, BES (external or corporate).

[Mark Rejhon]

See "Hosted BES" service in my BlackBerry FAQ. You can get IRC running (and Verichat MSN/ICQ/AIM/Yahoo and telnet/SSH), for an additional $10-$25 USD per month.

[grinthock]

I'm on a bes now with work, so what do I have to do from here? I have www via internet browser but all the other software I've tried claims protocol not found.

-- g

[grinthock]

Just to add another thing, in verichat there is two options, I either get protocol not found, or if I enable mds I get no service book found.

[Mark Rejhon]

Get the network administrator to turn on MDS (Mobile Data Service) on your BES.

[grinthock]

Good luck..... Not even CLOSE to my control.

[Mark Rejhon]

I guess you're dead in the water, short of buying your own BlackBerry and using your own hosted BES :(

Unless MDS is already enabled on your BES, and it's simply a configuration problem...

[grinthock]

What type of configuration problems could cause this?

[corey@12mile]

Not to offend anyone, but if your BB is on a BES server, I would have to guess that it's a company device. The fact that the BES admin won't enable MDS most likely means they don't want you running third party TCP/IP apps, maybe for security reasons...

I would guess that if you do get something like that going, and work finds out you may not only be out of the BB, but out of a job as well. It's literally 2 clicks to enable MDS on the server, 2 clicks to enable MDS for a user.

I'm sure if the company wanted you to have this access, they would let you have this access.

Obviously it's up to you in the end, but I wouldn't be risking my job for IRC on a BB.

And to top it all off, I don't even know your situation, so if I am wrong, I apologize.

[corey@12mile]

Oh... and one more thing... maybe if we consider the path your IRC traffic would take to get to the IRC server, we might find there is a firewall between your BES server and the internet that might be blocking the whole port 666X range.