bluetooth connection

Okay. Making progress on connecting the eee to my Verizon phone.

I already had my phone configured according to randyman's excellent instructions.

I had problems pairing the eee to my phone but then found this simple command resolved the problem, whatever it was:

sudo hciconfig hci0 piscan

Next, I followed the three light blue boxes on this post (down to the 'ppp' part). Then over to this post to get wvdial installed and configured. Note that for Verizon EVDO users, the username is your10digitnumber@vzw3g.com and the password is verizon (the commenter has these switched).

I've got the phone and the eee talking to each other, and I'm connected to the Verizon network. But I can't seem to use the connection in any meaningful way (like to open a browser, for example). I'm thinking this might be of help but I'm too tired to pursue it.