Trying to get EV-DO to work on a Treo 700p
Submitted by doc on Wed, 07/12/2006 - 04:09.
I'll save the carping for later.
The short of it is, I just got a Palm Treo 700p, and a Verizon cell phone account. The EVDO service is turned on at Verizon's end. So is a GPRS bluetooth service called Broadbandaccess, which slow as mud and constantly drops connections, but sort of works.
I'd like to be able to run EVDO through the Treo 700p, using the USB tether.
I don't run Windows. I have a Mac laptop (latest OS X on a 17" Powerbook) and a Linux laptop (SUSE 9.1, Novell Linux Desktop on a ThinkPad T40). Ideally I'd like to use the Treo 700p as a bridge to the net with EVDO for both.
Both Verizon and Palm say they don't support anything but Windows, but maybe I can find something on the Net.
So far, I haven't, aside from this USB Modem thing, which I installed on the Mac.
It tells me I need to kill bluetooth to make it work. That sucks (since the one thing it does that I like, so far, is work with my bluetooth headset), but I did it.
The Mac discovered the 700p as a connected device, but now wants a modem driver it doesn't have (Palm Treo CDMA EVDO) and settings Verizon won't give me. (I've looked for the settings on the Windows help sites, to no avail, so far.)
I'm about ready to take it back, get an ordinary phone and an EVDO card, which I'm hoping will work.
Ideas?
Maximo Park
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Read the Readme.txt
Hello you should have read the readme.txt file that came with your USB Modem for the 700p and it'd tell you that file its looking for is in the same zip as the program...
What I have seen
I got one to work from a Sprint 700p Bluetooth -> 15" powerbook. We don't have EVDO here, but as I understand from the threads I found, it just works. With bluetooth you are limited to ~200k, but USB you can get ~1000k.
I started with Google and that lead me here:
http://www.evdoforums.com/about2472.html
which had some good ideas, and at least led me here:
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=115986&page=1&pp=20
and that got the Bluetooth connection working. However, from that thread, I was lead to the USB Modem deal:
http://www.mobile-stream.com/usbmodem.html
which I haven't used, but from the messages posted, it sounded like it worked after some fiddling. I see that you tried it, but maybe try again?
l8rZ,
andrew
Werbach seems to have it
You need to give Kevin Werbach a shout as he is gloating he has his running with a similar sounding set up (http://werbach.com/blog/archives/2006/07/untethered.html) and using it on the train between Philly and NYC.
Treonauts
Have you posed this question to the Treonauts?
Verizon employee looking into it
Mentioned your dilemma to a family member that works at Verizon. They are looking into it. I had a similar problem myself and have wanted to connect to the internet via my phone and a bluetooth link to my MacBook. It seems to come down to finding the best hack for your device, which will pass the internet signal to your computer via bluetooth.
Why EVDO?
I don't know why the Cingular guy was so clueless, but at least with my Pocket PC and my Motorola v557 it was a matter of double-tapping the Bluetooth Phone icon. It dialed some special number through the phone and then bam, on the EDGE network. I know with Macs it's about that easy, but I don't know about Linux because I've never tried it.
Either way, a PCMCIA EVDO card should work...but whether the Mac would support _that_ I have no idea. The Linux desktop probably would. ^_^ And round and round and round we go.
Use the modem script from
Use the modem script from the program's archive - it is described in the manual. And you don't need the special modem plan for the connection to work.
Via Cingular...
Regarding your post: http://doc.weblogs.com/2006/07/12#tiltingAtSilos
I know it's not the same phone, but I use the Cingular 8125 via bluetooth on a MacBook Pro running OSX and Windows via bootcamp.
Once the phone is connected, I just followed these instructions and it works great.
http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/articles/1513.aspx
On a side note, I have a TomTom 910 GPS unit, which also connects to the phone via bluetooth and downloads traffic data over the net...
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Steve Lacey
http://www.steve-lacey.com
A few suggestions
Here are a few options to consider, all Verizon:
1) EVDO PCMCIA card (any) with Kyocera EVDO-to-WiFi router
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kr1-router/
PROS: 100% OS-independent, shares your EVDO connection.
CONS: Expensive, may be hard to buy quickly, can't use it in
a coffee shop.
2) PC5220 PCMCIA card
OSX 10.4.7 comes with a driver. You may be able to use it
as a regular dial up modem under Linux with these settings:
Phonenumber: #777
Username: yournumber@vzw3g.com (eg: 5415551212@vzw3g.com)
Password: vzw
Plus, you can always share the EVDO connection on your mac
over wifi or cable.
3) Tethering your 700p *should* work
Check out http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?p=1005827
Be sure you have the $15/month "Modem Tethering" option added to your plan.
Good luck!
-- Mike Sax
I had a similar problem,
I had a similar problem, where I couldn't get the DUN profile working with my Mac, using an LG VX-8300. After looking tirelessly one night, I discovered that the reason it wont dial in is because the mac does not want to send the password in plain text. To disable this, you need to add the following to (or create) /etc/ppp/options -- do this as root
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap
refuse-mschap-v2
Once you do this, the Mac will send the password in plain text. If you use another PPP connection that requires encryption, you will need to remove the file when you are done.
Don't forget to turn off EVDO before you connect (if you are using bluetooth DUN), else Verizon can detect the untethered connection.