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I purchased a Treo 700p a few weeks ago as a replacement for my Sony T637 and my Palm T3.  The T3 died and just never came back.  I need to have a Palm device in order to share passwords with my co-workers (TealSafe is great for this). I didn’t want to be carrying two devices anymore, so I got the 700p.

The short review of the 700p:   It’s a palm.  I get some hangs, some strange behavior, but it’s otherwise very nice.  I can get Internet access form anywhere, and now that I’m taking the bus into work, that gives me a lot of time to catch up on my e-mail on my way in so I can plan my day (yay Chatteremail).

But now on to what I wanted to do in the first place - let my Fedora Core 5 laptop connect to the Internet via bluetooth to the Treo.  There’s a lot of links out there that say “Oh yea, works fine.”  Without actually giving directions or hints.

I just got it working.  See what I did after the jump. (more…)