So there are a few tutorials out there for linking your Linux laptop to your Treo 650 for dial-up-networking, but nothing Ubuntu Dapper or Edgy Specific - or Sprint PCS Specific.

Here’s what I’ve done to get it all to play nicely together:

Install bluez-passkey-gnome. This allows you to input the PIN to get the treo and your bluetooth device to pair. I spent a good 1-2 hours on this alone!

sudo apt-get install bluez-passkey-gnome

In fact — add that to your gnome session. The executable is bt-applet

So now you can safely pair your Treo to your laptop and set it as a “trusted device”

I left my /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf stock except I changed the PIN.

Now you need to edit a few files. Here’s what mine look like:

/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf:

#
# RFCOMM configuration file.
#

# Description of the connection
comment "DUN to Treo 650";
}


/etc/chatscripts/BluetoothDialup:

TIMEOUT 5
ABORT '\nBUSY\r'
ABORT '\nERROR\r'
ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r'
ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r'
ABORT '\nNO DIALTONE\r'
ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\rRINGING\r'
'' \rATZ
TIMEOUT 12
OK ATD#777
TIMEOUT 22
CONNECT ""


/etc/ppp/peers/BluetoothDialup:

noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/BluetoothDialup"
defaultroute
usepeerdns
/dev/rfcomm0 115200
local
novj


Now all you need to do to start-up is run:

sudo hcitool cc 00:07:E0:63:33:54 To pair up the Treo
and then

pon BluetoothDialup to spin up the connection.
You’ll need to wait 20-30 secounds to get fully connected, but it’s sweet nectar when you see ir ppp0 device with an IP address and all.

To shut ‘er down you can just poff BluetoothDialup.

The cool thing about Sprint PCS is that they give you an outside routeable IP address!

Thanks to the following for inspiration / credit:

http://www.uslinux.net/docs/sprint-wireless-internet.php
for the ppp scripts to connect to sprint

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup
for the Ubuntu love

and
http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/Using_Linux_and_Bluetooth_DUN_with_the_Treo650.php
for the original pimpin howto

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I’ve just updated the scriptures.lds.org Firefox2 search plugin. I added some extra meta-data and a nice favicon logo. Enjoy

Is your VMWare Workstation broken after your Edgy Eft upgrade?
Errors with libpng12.so.0?

Short answer:
sudo apt-get remove libdbus-1-2

Long answer:
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With the release yesterday of FF 2.0 I thought I’d celebrate by creating an OpenSearch format search engine plugin for it. It allows you to search the scriptures on lds.org from within Firefox.

Click Here To Install It.

Disclaimer: Only Works with the new Firefox 2.0

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For those of you running Ubuntu Dapper the following will get you there:

sudo apt-get install libc6 libx11-6 libxext6 libxt6 libfreetype6 libfontconfig1 libgtk2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libasound2-dev libssl-dev libasound2 libssl0.9.8

Yes! Exactly what I’m looking for:
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