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A friend who depends on her blackberry phone with expensive contract for 
internet access (phone used as a modem) brought us her failing Thinkpad to 
try to fix.  I may be replacing it with a linux computer (she insists on a 
laptop).

Has anyone got BL working with a tethered blackberry?

There is something called Barry which supports 'tethering', and also syncs 
data between computer and blackberry.  Lets you charge via USB port. 5MB 
tar.gz or even larger packages for Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. (GUI).

XmBlackberry, which someone only got working combined with Barry.
Requires perl ('pearl') with CVS version with openmotif 2.3.and libXlt and 
libusb.

BBtether/berry4all (76K) requires python, libusb, python usb (pyusb). Will 
these work with 2.4 kernel and glibc 2.2.5?  GUI is optional. There is a 
SW81 python package but not libusb or pyusb.

Synchronization is irrelevant since she has not used the feature with her 
$57 Windows software.


She wants a laptop.  I can offer her one with 64MB RAM and USB.

Sindi Keesan
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