Last year a friend showed me his Sprint Treo acting as a modem to his iBook. He'd bought a USB attachment for the phone and it was apparantly all pretty easy.
Hen On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Brian wrote: > I have tried to get my Sprint phone to work as a modem on my ibook. It > has never worked. It almost worked on my pc, but I didn't invest enough > time into it to figure out why. I think due to the fact that my palm > connect serial cable is not the right one. > It will take a bit of research on your part to find out what you need > to get what you want accomplished. There are many different phones that > may or may not work with the mac. You may look into a bluetooth phone, > I think that they can share a connection with a blue tooth computer > (Bluetooth adapter for usb?) > You may want to look on google for something like Mac cell phone modem > and see what comes up. > That is about all i know what to tell you. > > check out http://pdapohnehome.com > > Brian O'Neal > > > > > On Mar 26, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Ronald Broadwater wrote: > > > I am considering using a wireless phone as a modem for a notebook. I > > am not > > bound by any contracts, but I prefer Cingular because of its rural > > coverage. > > Cingular states that Windows software is required. Is this true? (I > > have > > Bellsouth DSL and don't use their software.) > > > > Has anyone any experience with a wireless modem? > > > > -- > > Ronald Broadwater 502-721-7564 > > MailTo:rbroadw at bellsouth.net > > > > Edelen & Edelen Realtors 502-456-1817 > > 2721 Taylorsville Road > > Louisville, KY 40205 > > > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
