I was wondering if anybody has any experience using their BB as a tethered modem in a Linux environment. I run Ubuntu on my desktop and I love it so much I want to install it on my laptop too. The tethered modem issue is the one and only thing stopping me.

Not me.

I've been struggling with this for months. I found one post on ****************.com that claims they can do it with their 8100, but i can't get it to work on my 8830. different networks perhaps make the difference? Not sure.

here's one of the sets of instructions:
http://wiki.colar.net/tethering_with...pearl_on_linux

I believe some people have had good results with XmBlackBerry, although I haven't been able to get that to work (I can't seem to get one of the dependencies peoperly installed).

This can be done. I've read about it multiple times, I'm just too lazy. I'll research it myself, I'll favorite this thread - and get back to you. I'll try it out with my laptop today.

Ugh. This is not going to be easy. Lots of compile errors in XLT, and a few other programs these guides refer to..

Looks like I'll be doing this solo. Might take awhile.

I've been able to compile everything except the opensync plugin directory. Here is the error I'm receiving:

root@m1210:/root/XmBlackBerry/opensync# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/XmBlackBerry/opensync'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/XmBlackBerry/opensync/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/opensync-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -Wall -g -O2 -MT rim_record.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/rim_record.Tpo -c -o rim_record.lo rim_record.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/opensync-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -Wall -g -O2 -MT rim_record.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/rim_record.Tpo -c rim_record.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/rim_record.o
In file included from rim_record.c:29:
/usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync/opensync-xml.h:31: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘OSyncError’
/usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync/opensync-xml.h:36: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘OSyncError’
/usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync/opensync-xml.h:40: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘osxml_has_property’
/usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync/opensync-xml.h:41: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘osxml_has_property_full’
/usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync/opensync-xml.h:51: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘osxml_copy’
/usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync/opensync-xml.h:53: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘osxml_marshall’
/usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync/opensync-xml.h:54: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘osxml_demarshall’
rim_record.c: In function ‘dump_hex’:
rim_record.c:201: warning: field width should have type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘size_t’
make[2]: *** [rim_record.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/XmBlackBerry/opensync/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/XmBlackBerry/opensync'
make: *** [all] Error 2
root@m1210:/root/XmBlackBerry/opensync#

Any ideas? I was receiving an error before with opensync-xml.h missing so I installed the compiled the opensync package from CVS. I also tried to use the opensync-3.0.0.tar.gz as well. Any have a work around?

Nevermind. did some more research and found a copy of the file on the opensync website. Had to copy and paste it in to a text document. I've attached the opensync-xml.h that allowed me to compile the opensync folder in the XmBlackBerry folder. Place the file in /usr/include/opensync-1.0/opensync.

#ifndef HAVE_OPENSYNC_XML_H
#define HAVE_OPENSYNC_XML_H

#include <libxml/xmlmemory.h>
#include <libxml/parser.h>
#include <libxml/xpath.h>

#include <opensync/opensync.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif

typedef enum osxmlEncoding {
OSXML_8BIT = 0,
OSXML_QUOTED_PRINTABLE = 1,
OSXML_BASE64 = 2
} osxmlEncoding;

typedef enum osxmlCharset {
OSXML_ASCII = 0,
OSXML_UTF8 = 1
} osxmlCharset;

typedef struct OSyncXMLEncoding OSyncXMLEncoding;
struct OSyncXMLEncoding {
osxmlEncoding encoding;
osxmlCharset charset;
};

typedef struct OSyncXMLScore {
int value;
const char *path;
} OSyncXMLScore;

xmlNode *osxml_node_add_root(xmlDoc *doc, const char *name);
xmlNode *osxml_node_get_root(xmlDoc *doc, const char *name, OSyncError **error);
xmlNode *osxml_get_node(xmlNode *parent, const char *name);

xmlNode *osxml_node_add(xmlNode *parent, const char *name, const char *data);
//void osxml_format_dump(OSyncXML *xml, char **data, int *size);
xmlNode *osxml_format_parse(const char *input, int size, const char *rootname, OSyncError **error);
char *osxml_find_node(xmlNode *parent, const char *name);
void osxml_node_add_property(xmlNode *parent, const char *name, const char *data);
char *osxml_find_property(xmlNode *parent, const char *name);
osync_bool osxml_has_property(xmlNode *parent, const char *name);
osync_bool osxml_has_property_full(xmlNode *parent, const char *name, const char *data);

void osxml_node_mark_unknown(xmlNode *parent);
void osxml_node_remove_unknown_mark(xmlNode *node);
void osxml_map_unknown_param(xmlNode *node, const char *paramname, const char *newname);

void osxml_node_set(xmlNode *node, const char *name, const char *data, OSyncXMLEncoding encoding);
xmlXPathObject *osxml_get_nodeset(xmlDoc *doc, const char *expression);
xmlXPathObject *osxml_get_unknown_nodes(xmlDoc *doc);
OSyncConvCmpResult osxml_compare(xmlDoc *leftinpdoc, xmlDoc *rightinpdoc, OSyncXMLScore *scores, int default_score, int treshold);
xmlChar *osxml_write_to_string(xmlDoc *doc);
osync_bool osxml_copy(const char *input, int inpsize, char **output, int *outpsize);

osync_bool osxml_marshall(const char *input, int inpsize, char **output, int *outpsize, OSyncError **error);
osync_bool osxml_demarshall(const char *input, int inpsize, char **output, int *outpsize, OSyncError **error);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif