— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE APPLE SUPPORT COMMUNITIES IN 2006

After an extremely long trail & error period, I’ve finally figured out how to use my T-mobile Motorola SLVR L7 as a mobile internet modem for my Mac :

Step 1 :

• call the T-Mobile Helpdesk, and have them send you the message which auto-installs the T-Zones GPRS settings needed on your SLVR L7 (they will call it an SMS, but it will appear on your phone as a ‘Browser Msg’)

…make sure you have pen and paper ready to write down the PIN-code you will need to install the settings-message

Step 2 :

• download (and install !!) the Motorola 3G and/or Motorola GPRS scripts you can find on Ross Barkman’s page :

http://www.taniwha.org.uk/

…and buy Ross a virtual beer to thank him…

Step 3 :

• connect your SLVR L7 to your Mac using a mini-USB-to-USB-cable

Step 4 :

• in System Prefs / Network / Network Port Configs activate the new port “Motorola Phone (L7)”, and configure it :

Under the PPP-tab :

• Service Provider : … [anything you like, e.g. “internet using GSM”]
• Account Name : tmobile
• Password : tmobile
• Tel. Number : internet
• Alt. Number : [none]
• Save Password : On

Under the PPP / PPP Options-tab :

• all Session Options : … [whatever you like]
• all Advanced Options : Off [if you wish you can leave Verbose Logging on, but do turn off all other options]

Under the TCP/IP-tab :

• Configure IPv4 : Using PPP
• leave everything else blank

Under the Proxies-tab :

• leave everything blank

Under the Modem-tab :

• Modem : Motorola 3G CID1 (“Motorola 3G CID2”, “Motorola GPRS CID1 57k” and “Motorola GPRS CID1 57k +CGQREQ” will also work, and maybe some others too…)
• Error Correction & Compression : Off
• Wait For Dail Tone : Off
• Dailing : Tone
• Sound : Off
• Modem Status in Menu Bar : On

…and don’t forget to click “Apply Now”

Step 4 :

• click on the modem-icon in the menu-bar (the telephone-horn with the adshed line next to it)
• first click “Show time connected” and “Show status while connecting” in the pull down menu
• then click “Connect”, and your GPRS-connection is being established…

As a check you should see “GPRS Active” in your SLVR’s screen.

…and to disconnect go to the modem-icon in the menu-bar and select “Disconnect”

Note : the above solution should work for all new Motorola GSMs :

• RAZR V3i
• RAZR V3x
• SLVR L2
• SLVR L6
• SLVR L7
• PEBL U6

…and it will probably also work for the previous Motorola GSMs :

• RAZR V3
• ROKR E1

the original post(s) can be found here :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/448190?start=0&tstart=0