Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD?

[Yuri]

Quoting Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org>:

> I've done it, and it's painful....took me the better part of two days to get
> 
> working.  The main sticking points are you need to dial some arbitrary number
> 
> that your provider won't be able to tell you without spending 5 hours on the
> 
> phone, and you need to know your username (relatively easy to find) and your
> 
> password (harder than hell to find).
> 
> Once you have all that figured out, AND you've made sure your data plan 
> includes "Phone as Modem" capability, you can link to it with bluetooth and
> 
> then dial out over it with PPP.

Thank you for information.

It's unfortunate that even though cell phone already has IP connectivity that
built-in browser works through it's still necessary to go through dialup/PPP to
get this to laptop.

I guess I will give it a try too.

Yuri