I found it much simpler to just tether using Bluetooth; the steps I did on my Pearl are as follows:

1. Install bluez & ppp
2. Set up rfcomm & pair my laptop to my BB
/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf
(replace the device value with your phone's MAC address) then run rfcomm bind 1
3. Create two pppd scripts:
/etc/ppp/peers/bberry
(replace the user with your phone number)
/etc/ppp/peers/bberry_chat
4. Dial out using pppd: pppd call bberry

I can verify it works (I'm using it now); I did it under Gentoo but it should be distro independent. If you're using a different model, just be sure to determine which channel to set to using hcitool browse. Look for something like:
I am paying for tethering, so no clue if this would score you free DUN on Verizon. Also everything compiles without any voodoo; I'm using bluez-libs & bluez-utils 3.24, and ppp 2.4.4. It didn't take me too long to setup because I did essentially the same thing with my previous phone (Moto Q). I detailed the steps more closely in a thread I posted on Qusers. You also must obviously get your kernel to work with Bluetooth, which is probably done by default on most distro's (I list the necessary modules in the thread I linked to).

Upon closer inspection, I found that I'm having the same problem as paulengel. Namely, for some reason Xlt refuses to make without error.

Greetings,
I have followed your guide with out any problems until I do the "sudo pppd call blackberry" command.

I get the following error

pppd: In file /etc/ppp/peers/blackberry: unrecognized option '-f'

here is a copy of my file for reference

debug debug debug
nodetach
/dev/pts/3
115200
connect “chat -f /etc/chatscripts/blackberry"
nomultilink
defaultroute
noipdefault
ipcp-restart 7
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
#need lcp-echo turned off, at least for tmobile, otherwise c0onnectin
# disconnects after few mn of inactivity.
# thanks to ’loon’ for this info
lcp-echo-interval 0
lcp-echo-failure 999
modem
noauth
nocrtscts
noipdefault
novj # refused anyway, no point in trying every time
usepeerdns
user “”
password “”


any advice on this matter would be helpful I have tried the full connect line of
connect “/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/blackberry”
and still no luck

I'm running kubuntu fully updated

I am currently trying to setup my curve to work with my laptop when ever I open XmBlackberry I receive the error below anyone have any ideals

sync.c:sync_init(296) - rim-sync plugin not available. Unable to find plugin "rim-sync". This can be caused by unresolved symbols Sync disabled.
bb_usb.c:scan_device(1809) - bcdDevice 0106, 1 configurations bcdDevice 0x0106
bb_usb.c:say_hello(510) - Read 0 bytes of 7 from ep 81. Didn't hear hello. Resource temporarily unavailable No error
bb_usb.c:check_endpoint_pair(1506) - Couldn't say hello on endpoint pair 1 2
bb_usb.c:check_endpoint_pair(1478) - found one 3 4
bb_usb.c:process(1003) - 243edf68 set mode "RIM_UsbSerData" failed.

I posted that using this steps ( and some of later posts ) helped me to make my BB work with my linux laptop! (KUbuntu)

Thanks guys!

( Reposted because it was gone. )

Don't have to make excuses for reposting. We understand.

i am creating a google group to try and bring everyone together on this. i am leaving messages at ubuntu forums, here at blackberry forums, and other linux forums. I have seen a lot of people try to do this on many different sites. i think if we worked together we could get this working as im connected now and others can to and some cannot. id like to get this thing solved for more people. so please join the group.

blackberry.on.linux | Google Groups

yumamarine:

here is my file, maybe you can copy and paste some of the differences and test the result.


debug debug debug
nodetach
/dev/pts/3
115200
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/blackberry"
nomultilink
defaultroute
noipdefault
ipcp-restart 7
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
# added this, so that it doesn't disconnect after few mn of innactivity
lcp-echo-interval 0
lcp-echo-failure 999
modem
noauth
nocrtscts
noipdefault
novj # refused anyway, no point in trying every time
usepeerdns
user ##########@sprintpcs.com
password ##########



and my /etc/chatscripts/blackberry file

ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED ABORT ERROR
SAY "Initializing\n"
'' ATZ
OK-AT-OK ATDT#777
CONNECT \d\c




also i am using sprint so the second file should look different that that if someone uses verizon, not sure if its different with t-mobile also but i dont think it is

I'm on Linux Mint 4.0 KDE, and the installation has gone well up to this point, but when I make barry, I get this error.

[edit] So the problem was that Barry has released version 0.12 very recently. CVS seems to not compile correctly.

My problem now is that when running bcharge, I get this:

I have ATT and I just got off the phone with them about what parameters to use and it seems that no matter what I do I get.
ATE
Dialing
Serial connection established.
using channel 22
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/rfcomm1
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x2eeca0f6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MD5>]
No auth is possible
sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x0 <auth chap MD5>]

I have tried using a chap-secrets file and not using one. ATT told me not to use a user and password. I can not seem to get around this. Any hekp is appreciated .

/etc/ppp/peers/blackberry
debug debug debug
nodetach
/dev/rfcomm1
115200
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/blackberry"
nomultilink
defaultroute
noipdefault
ipcp-restart 7
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
lcp-echo-interval 0
lcp-echo-failure 999
noccp
modem
noauth
nocrtscts
noipdefault
novj # refused anyway, no point in trying every time
usepeerdns
user ""
password ""


/etc/chatscripts/blackberry"
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED ABORT ERROR
'' ATZ
SAY "ATE\n"
OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","wap.cingular"'
OK 'AT'
OK 'ATDT*99#'
SAY "Dialing\n"

Any suggestions ? Do I need a chap-secrets or pap-secrets?

Thanks.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@barry.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/barry login

i enter this into the terminal and get prompted for a password everytime. I am assuming this is why bcharge isn't installed. please help

make[2]: *** [libbarry.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/barry/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/barry'
make: *** [all] Error 2


get this as well when trying to do 'make' even with 'sudo make'

Does one have to pay for DUN (dial up networking) through their provider to get tethering fully working?

SUCCESS!

The Bluetooth method described above is far and away the easiest way to get tethering working in Linux.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and after about a month of trying, I was about to give up and go back to dual-booting Windows..

All I had to do was edit the config files as outlined above for my Pearl's MAC address and my phone number (of course). I had to install/compile absolutely NOTHING!!

A big THANK YOU to SDNick484!!

I can get XmBlackBerry running just find, but instead of the location of the modem, I get this:

XmBlackBerry.c:OptionPopupCallback(998) - GPRS modem device Not available


I'm running Slackware 11.0, Blackberry Pearl 7130, Sprint as a carrier. Any help figuring out what's wrong would be greatly appreciated!

I am seeing the same thing in Kubuntu 8.04 using an 8700 with OS 4.5. I'm still researching and I'll post if I find a solution.

A.C.
******

Greetings,

Per my previous post I ran in to a blocking error with the USB cable method. I picked up a cheap USB bluetooth adapter and I now have a T-Mobile provided DUN tether working with my 8700 in Kubuntu 8.04 Linux (I'm posting this from it now)!

Here are a few things that are particular to tethering a Blackberry 8700c (unlocked from AT&T) using TMobile's service which differ from SDNick484's instructions:

First off, the steps at Blackberry Curve 8310 as Bluetooth Modem on Ubuntu Hardy « pegelinux were fantastic. I'm going to use their naming convention of gprs and gprs-connect-chat instead of bberry and bberry-chat, respectively.

For my configuration, rfcomm.conf needed to be set to use channel 0. I determined this by running:
This told me that my phone was using channel 0 so my rfcomm bind command looked like this:
Note that this is a slightly different syntax than other online instructions, but it seems to work OK.

In the gprs (bbery) ppp config file, T-Mobile does not require a username (not even a phone number) so erase the user line entirely. I also set the IP address to :169.254.1.1 which made a lot of console errors go away later.

In gprs-connect-chat (bberry-chat), the following two lines are unique to T-Mobile:

OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","wap.voicestream.com","",0,0' \
OK ATD*99***1#

In my case, I had to change my phone's APN (Options -> Advanced -> TCP -> APN field) to wap.voicestream.com as well (with user and password blank because T-Moble just plain doesn't use them). This was probably only required for me because I wiped my phone when moving it from AT&T to T-Mobile. You can double-check your service book to see what your APN is set to.

Once I got that all set up right I was able to run pppd call gprs and everything was happy!

Again, it's probably easiest to use the T-Mobile specific settings with the guide I attempted to link to above as it is very complete. Thanks to everyone who posted information on how to get things working, in particular tcolar and SDNick484. If I happen to get it working through USB I'll be sure to post how I did it but for now I think Bluetooth is a perfectly fine solution.

Best of luck to those who follow,

A.C.
******

Great instructions. I allowed and fixed your link.

Another tip (that I discovered the hard way):
If you succeed in connecting to the rfcomm device with ppp and initiating a ppp connection, but you see something like the following:
then you should try adding the following lines to your /etc/ppp/options:
auth
+pap

You will also probably want to add the following line to /etc/ppp/options
usepeerdns
(otherwise you may not be able to resolve domain names)

Hmm. It looks like what Elias needs is similar to what I needed. Elias, try adding these lines to your /etc/ppp/options

auth
+chap

I'm having exactly the same problem some 4 months after this post. How are people getting past this? Thanks.

There's a typo here in the first post of this thread:

XmBlackBerry
Get XmBlackberry source code

ALL ONE ONE LINE !!
Quote:
cd ~
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@xmblackberry.cvs.sourceforge.ne t:/cvsroot/xmblackberry co XmBlackBerry

Note the space between "sourceforge.ne t". Should be "sourceforge.net"

Thanks

I am trying to connect my BlackBerry Curve 8320 via Bluetooth with TMobile. I'm using the scripts that dwangoac referenced in his prior post. The first time I tried this, it connected to the phone and it continued until it got to this line:

sent [PAP AuthReq...

It then kept sending that line over and over and then failed. Now when I try, it never gets recv commands back from the phone AT ALL and the process times out. I have rebooted my computer and also restarted my BlackBerry but still no luck. Can anyone help with this?

I must say that your article has been hugely useful though. All other solutions I've found were either not explained well or too complicated. Thank you!

I'm close, I think.
I'm pretty new to Linux, so I'm struggling with that a bit.
I have the Blackberry plan through T-Mobile; I've been connecting via bluetooth tether and Win XP for about a year, so I have that working.

I'm really looking for:
1. What's my problem? (Not life in general, just this issue )
2. Can someone explain or point me to understanding this? Yes I want to fix it, but I also want to understand it.
3. Shouldn't noauth tell my computer NOT to send user / password?

So that said, I'm following SDNick484's directions (#41), bluetooth tethering

• setup the rfcomm.conf (had to change to channel 1 based on spdtool)
• do the bberry script
• do the bberry_chat script (w/ tmo OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","wap.voicestream.com","",0,0')

I'm thinking I may have an issue with the PAP, but not sure???

I tried this second but it's shorter, so in the bberry script, if I try:
It gets most of the way through the connection, then I see (not verbatim)
If I drop guest out of user, so I have user '' or user "", then it seems my computer is sending the computer name as the user name. My results from that are at the bottom, because that's a long post.

So, I have seen mentions that although T-Mobile doesn't need the PAP, but my computer might require it? I tried a lot of things last night, but didn't get a chance to test that.

Thanks for bearing with me.

No user name results:
*EDIT* My phone is an 8100, v4.2.1.107 on Platform 2.3.0.83, not unlocked

xmblackberry is just not needed anymore. I posted a much more simpler guide using just barry. Newest barry supports PAM as well as other tools.

Hello there, I'm the original author of this thread(long time ago)

I've made a new tool which only goal is tethering with a Blackberry.

It's much easier to install since it's just a python script (few dependencies).

See here for Instructions:
BBTether - Easy Tethering for Blackberry on Linux [Thibaut Colar's Home]

I only have a Pearl and tmobile so that's all I've tested it with so far, it's brand new so probably buggy, but I would love it if other people used it and gave me feedback so i can improve it.

Please let me know how it goes and success/failure stories at tcolar AT colar dot NET or comment on the site.

Thank you.

Hello,

I was able to see my device (btools -l). Now I'm stuck. I can't open peers to edit the script. I get "bash: cd: peers: Permission denied" How do I open the peers folder?

I wish a mod would move post #65 to the top of the post.


Works great (and easy to install) on my Apire One running Linux4One (a ubuntu release) and my tmo 8900.