On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Sean Dague wrote: > I'm nearing phone upgrade time, and as I know phones have come up at > dinner, I figured this might be a good place to ask. Beyond the phone > being a phone, I also really need the phone to be usable as a modem from > Linux.
Searches require having the right vocabulary word; I've yet to use a laptop
with a cell phone (and I've never had Sprint regardless), but I usually see
this referred to as "tethering" to the cell phone:
http://www.litljay.com/howtos/tether/
> I'm actually writing this email right now using my current cell
> phone as a ppp uplink for my laptop. (I also just realized this might
> make a good lightning talk.)
>
> I'm only interested in sprint as a carrier, for a number of reasons. So
> anyone with info on phones that work with sprint well in this way would
> be appreciated.
Somebody on the Ubuntu forums seems to have this working (with Sprint) on a
Blackberry 7130e:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-731157.html
A Gentoo user at this link has a hint to other hint that Novatel based USB
devices on some Sprint cell phones work with Linux:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20488200-Wireless-Internet-Access-on-Laptop-running-Linux
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