Tethering/PAM?

[jhlight]

I just purchased a Samsung Intrepid to replace my Palm Centro which died. Since there are no more phones available running Palm OS I thought switching to a Windows Mobile phone would be easier and less expensive than switching to WebOS or Android. However, while I've been able to get most of the features I used of my Centro to work on the Intrepid, I've been unable to get tethering to work on this new phone.

On my first set of attempts I tried using Internet Sharing connected to USB and Phone As Modem. When that didn't work I went into the connection settings and updated the login and password for both Phone as Modem and Sprint Data to my Sprint Vision login and password with no success. I have also tried updating the registry.

In my most recent attempts I did a complete reset of the phone. I then went into the registry and cleared out "InternetSharingEx.dll" and rebooted. However I'm still getting exactly the same errors.

When I try to connect using Sprint Data I get an error "Cannot connect over this connection. You should use 'Network Connection : Phone As Modem' next time"

When I try to connect using Phone as Modem I get "Registration failure... Error #67" and "The remote party has ended this connection." Additionally, once I've tried this I can't get ActiveSync to recognize the phone without turning the phone off and back on.

When I switched phones I did not make any changes to my plan. I'm still on unlimited data and had no problem tethering with my Palm Centro using Mobile-Stream USB Modem.

Since many people have reported they've been able to get this to work strait out of the box, I'm frustrated that this won't work for me.

Has anyone experienced the same problem and found a valid fix? If so, what did you do differently?