How to use your blackberry as a modem in Debian

After aquiring a BlackBerry cellphone, I wanted to use it as a modem for my laptop, running Debian. Here's how to do it via USB:

I recommend you read all this procedure before starting

• Install barry (so you can use the cellphone via USB, this makes it chargeable too


• Install XmBlackBerry


• connect your mobile phone to your computer, via USB


• sudo XmBlackBerry


• clicking in the options menu you'll see in the stderr (console where you
  run this app) a /dev/pts/something , which is your GPRS device


• click "connect" and see if your phone tells you that you're connected to the desktop


• sudo vi /etc/chatscripts/blackberry :
  
  

  
  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
  SAY "ATE\n"
  OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","wap.voicestream.com"'
  OK 'AT'OK 'ATDT*99***1#'
  SAY "Dialing\n"
  

  
  


• (change "device" here) sudo vi /etc/ppp/peers/blackberry
  
  

  
  debug debug debug
  nodetach
  /dev/pts/device
  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
  modem
  noauth
  nocrtscts
  noipdefault
  novj
  usepeerdns
  user ""
  password ""
  

  
  


• sudo pppd call blackberry

And you're on!

Yeah, but how to install XmBlackBerry?

Here are the steps to install XmBlackBerry:

* get and install libmotif 2.3.0 debian packages here
* aptitude install xaw3dg-dev xorg-dev x11proto-print-dev autoconf libtool libopensync-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
* As root, run
ln -s /usr/include/X11/Xaw3d /usr/include/X11/Xaw
* Install Xlt (tested with 13.0.13): get it here, untar it and, in its directory...
*

./configure --with-motif-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --prefix=/usr
make && make install

* Install XmBlackBerry:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@xmblackberry.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xmblackberry co XmBlackBerry
cd XmBlackBerry/
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@libusb.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libusb co libusb
cd libusb
make && make install
cd ..
./CVSMake
./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-shared --with-motif-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.4 /usr/lib/libXm.so.4

And how to install Barry?

In Pearl's case you need CVS version of it.

* Install barry:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@barry.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/barry login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@barry.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/barry co -P barry
cd barrysh
buildgen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo cp udev/*b* /etc/udev/rules.d/.