Hi. I just wanted to share how I connected my htc touch pro 2 phone to my mac so that I could access the internet via the mac's modem and thereby bypass using the airport card. I set this up some time ago so I may not have included every detail....Feel free to post if you have any questions of course... Anyway, I should also point out that this setup requires no extra charges other than the fee you pay for your cell phone data plan...
Background: I have a t-mobile data plan, an htc touch pro 2 phone and I'm running OS X 10.5.8 on a mac laptop.
1)On the phone do the following:
-turn on the htc's bluetooth, add your computer as a device (you should give your computer a name), make your cell phone discoverable.
-On the mac do the following:
2) open network preferences, click on the "+" sign in the lower left to add a new connection. Give your connection a name. I called mine "htc".
3)in the right hand panel, leave the configuration drop down on "default".
4)this step is important (this gave me trouble a bunch of times). Set the phone number to *99#. Leave account name and pw blank. Hit apply. Save changes.
5) open bluetooth preferences
6)You should have some name for your phone listed here. If not setup a new device by clicking on the "+" in the bottom left.
7)Then, and this is also key, click on the settings dropdown. This is to the right of the "-" sign in the bottom left. In this dropdown list select "edit serial ports".
On the new page that pops up you should see your device name in the top pane. The following fields should have the following information:
-Name: (this should be your device name, same as the info in the top pane)
Protocol: RS-232
Service: Dial-up Networking
-the boxes "require pairing .." and "show in network prefs" can be left
unchecked.
9) Hit apply and save all of this.
10) You should have a phone icon displayed somewhere in your
menu bar on the mac.
11) be sure your airport card is turned off (Click on the wireless
signal strength icon at the top and be sure you have turned off your
airport card)
12) click on the phone/modem icon in the menu bar. You should see
something that says connect to htc (assuming you named your phone
htc). Click on that
13) You should see next to the phone icon a timer. This will show that
the mac is connecting to your phone.
14) You should notice your htc touch pro 2 screen light up once the mac has established the connection.
15) If all goes well, you should notice that the timer/clock next to the phone icon is ticking away in minutes and seconds.
16) Open up a browser and try going to a web page.
17) Once you are done using the internet via the tether, you can click on the phone icon again and select "Disconnect htc" (again, assuming you called your phone "htc").
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You now have a mac configured to either tether to the touch pro or connect to your wireless router.
Extra Note: I found that tethering like this is enormously useful in rural areas. For example, my wife and I wound up stuck once in virginia looking for a hotel but everything locally was booked (yes, we should have booked in advance but didn't). Anyway, we were able to park at a rest stop and we were able to tether the htc to the mac laptop in a couple of minutes. This let us search for hotels and find a way out of our predicament. Obviously, we found that the tether was very reliable between the mac and the htc touchpro 2.
-mpre