Crack Attack: Use the Blackberry as a USB modem on a Mac

October 18, 2006 by Dan in Random with 3 Comments

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.

http://5thirtyone.com 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.
http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

Yea, I’ll talk about Blackberries, but I’ll be long dead before I carry one.

TREO!
http://www.irat101.com 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

Crack Attack: Use the Blackberry as a USB modem on a Mac

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