Crack Attack: Use the Blackberry as a USB modem on a Mac
Posted in Random by Dan at 1:21 pm
Alex King (Yes, of WordPress fame) decided that he was sick and tired of waiting for the cellphone company to come up with a way that Mac users could use DUN on their Blackberries.
So taking matters into his own hands he set up a bounty to crack a BlackBerry 8700 series device to work as a Bluetooth modem in Mac OS X.
Although nothing has been posted for the public yet, a development build did allow web browsing and email downloading. The hack works with T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon (Cingular is not tested yet) - and we will post more details when the crack is online.
3 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Derek
Wow! Dan pointing out magic for Blackberry users?! What’s next? I love Google t-shirts for Fridays? :p See I told you Blackberry’s are hot.
Oct 18th, 2006
Dan
Yea, I’ll talk about Blackberries, but I’ll be long dead before I carry one.
TREO!
Oct 18th, 2006
Mark Shumaker
I myself have nuked on this bounty, Never could come up with the fix. I am inerested knowing how you go the USB modem to show in the Network port configurations. I almost there when I was given the apple usb Modem. My only concern now is to get my customers up and running. Do we have a ETA on the software patch, and a cost?
I have six customers who need this. And would also love to sell your patch on ebay, HEHHE. Please let me know when this comes out.
Mark Shumaker
myagetoys@mac.com
Feb 10th, 2007
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