asus eeepc tethered via bluetooth to a palm centro

I got a new phone, so of course we must modify the Bluetooth settings on the eeepc, right?

First, some recommended posts:

• http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=9166. The post is for Sprint phones, but steps 3, 4, and 5 are the first steps for the Verizon installation. Key points: (1) Get USBModem software. I'm still in the trial period, but I think for $15, it's not a bad deal. Note that you don't have to install the software on the laptop side, just use HotSync to get the piece that goes on the Centro. (2) Address that connection-dropping problem (the first reply to the post). I didn't realize until reading this post that I'd been having trouble with that on my Motorola. I was attributing the problem to poor signals.
• http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=14295. This post reviews the necessary coding for /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf (didn't change from the Motorola install) and /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf (change device address and channel).
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothDialup. Seems like the Centro wanted to adopt a new channel pairing each time I fired up the connection. This page suggests 'rfcomm release 0' at the command line to fix the problem. It wasn't clear to me whether this is a one-time fix or an every-time fix. So to be safe, I put that command in my rfcomm.conf file, right ahead of the 'rfcomm0 {' line.
  

I saw several posts which suggested that with USBModem, you end up with a dial-up connection that's visible on the Network Connecitons dialog. Well, I never saw it. I'm continuing to use wvdial.

Finally, it wasn't clear whether the password for Verizon is 'verizon' or 'vzw'. I changed to password to 'vzw' in the wvdial.conf file - not sure whether the old one would have worked or not.