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Connecting to internet via phone on Linux

I have a Sony Ericsson C702 phone with a flat fee internet subscription (GPRS/UMTS). I'd like to connect my Linux (Kubuntu 9.04) laptop to internet via this phone, using bluetooth (I also have a cable connection but that's propietary, doubt it'll work). How can I do this, preferably via GUI / NetworkManager / the BT applet that comes with KDE?

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Guest [Entry]

"If you are fine with using your USB cable instead of Bluetooth, you can (this works on my K800i, assuming SE didn't remove this option) go to Connectivity Settings -> USB -> USB Internet. There select the data account you use to access internet from the phone and turn it on. Now your phone will work as a usb network adapter when you plug it in. I imagine NetworkManager should see it immediately, althought I configured in manually ""the Debian way"". The name of the interface was usb0 in my case.

This was by far the easiest way to configure it, you reuse your phones Internet settings so you don't have to input all these settings on your PC.

EDIT: Re. the Debian way, I added the following to /etc/network/interfaces

# Phone internet connection
allow-hotplug usb0
iface usb0 inet dhcp

So dhcp worked fine for me."
Guest [Entry]

The USB cable you have is not propietary, your phone will show up as a normal USB CDC WMC device, with two serial ports available, /dev/ttyACM0 and /dev/ttyACM1. Those ports should can be used for normal dial-up.