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After you have finished creating a Bluetooth connection between your device and computer, Windows Vista
automatically detects and installs the device to your computer as a Bluetooth modem.
You now need to create a modem dial-up connection on your computer. For details, see “Creating a modem
dial-up connection” in this chapter for details.
Windows XP
On your device, turn on Bluetooth and set it to visible mode. For information, see “To turn Bluetooth on
and make your device visible” in Chapter 10.
Turn on Bluetooth on your computer. (Refer to computer’s documentation for details on how to turn on
Bluetooth).
Right-click the Bluetooth Devices icon on the system tray, and then click Add a device.
Create a Bluetooth partnership between your device and your computer. See “To create a Bluetooth
partnership” in Chapter 10.
After you have created a Bluetooth partnership between your device and your computer, on your
computer, click Start > Control Panel > Phone and Modem Options.
Click the Modems tab. If “Bluetooth Modem” or “Standard Modem over Bluetooth Link” exists, click OK.
Otherwise, do the succeeding instructions.
Click Add, and then click Next on the Add Hardware Wizard window. You computer automatically
installs the new Bluetooth modem.
Click Finish to close the Add Hardware Wizard window, and then click OK to close the Phone and
Modem Options window. Your device is now set up as a Bluetooth modem.
Note If you are in GSM mode, you must set the Access Point Name. To do this, in the Modems tab, select the Bluetooth
modem, and then click Properties. Click the Advanced tab, and enter the following in the Extra initialization
commands text box:
AT+CGDCONT=1,“IP”,“APN”
Where APN is the access point name provided by Verizon. Tap OK to apply the changes.
You now need to create a modem dial-up connection on your computer. For details, see “Creating a modem
dial-up connection” in this chapter for details.
To activate your device as a Bluetooth modem on a Windows XP computer
On your computer, disable ActiveSync by clicking File > Connection Settings and then clearing the
Allow connections to one of the following check box.
On your device, tap Start > All Programs > Modem Link.
Select Bluetooth as the connection type.
On the Modem Link screen, tap Menu > Start.
Tip If you connect multiple computers to your device, tap Menu > Select PC, tap the computer you want to
connect to the Internet, and then tap Done.
5. To stop the connection, tap Menu > Stop.
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