Setting up Phone As Modem on Samsung SPH-A900 in Ubuntu

Well I started playing with my new Samsung A900 yesterday in Ubuntu. I was able to pair the phone pretty easily so the next step was to configure it as a modem over bluetooth.

EVDO woes

Well decided to test the EVDO on my work laptop (Dell D610) running Windows XP (since I figured if any issues arose they would not help me much using Linux and I would have to use a USB Bluetooth dongle on my G4 desktop so I figured I would do my best to eliminate any issues prior to later testing ;-).

New Samsung A900 Arrives

Well the new Samsung A900 arrived. Very sweet looking. Spent a huge amount of time on the phone with Sprint trying to setup the phone and port the old number over. Not very much fun but is it ever? ;-) Next step after activated in a few hours is to test out the EVDO.

Switching wireless providers

Well after a little bit of thought and a long conversation today with my buddy (let's see if he makes an appearance here) I decided to finally do away with my Nextel (which I have only kept for this long and dealt with the high pricing, is for the PTT/Direct Connect). So I ordered up a new Sprint Samsung A900 phone with Phone As Modem service. Now we just wait til it arrives!!! :D

Dapper Drake Beta 2 (Ubuntu is the dist of choice)?

I have to start by saying I have always loved Debian and Debian based systems. Anyway back to the point. I went from starting with early version of RedHat (Manhattan) to Debian and then to a bunch of Debian based systems in the interim. Then finally started using Suse 9.2, 9.3, and up until recently 10.0 (still use on some of my machines).

Suse 10 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 updates

I have uploaded the latest versions of MozillaFirefox and MozillaThunderbird here: http://shadowsector.org/files/browse/suse/10.0/ If you have problems with Beagle.xpi please read previous update post here.

OpenSuSE 10.1 RC1 Arrives

After many beta and alpha releases there is finally a release candidate available of openSuSE 10.1. It is still not production ready and has known bugs (some with documented work arounds) but still something SuSE users are excited about and have been waiting for.