Dunno about USB-BT adapter, but GPRS does work -
at least with my Nokia 9300 and infrared (the birda package)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-09/1387.html

On 4/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed OpenBSD 3.8 in a laptop with a winmodem so I can't
> connect to the internet with it but recently by chance I realised that
> OpenBSD3.8 recognised the bluetooth adapter I had plugged in on the USB, a
> Belkin v1.2 10m range, during boot up time it highlited it and
> acknowledged the model.
>
> Since I also own a mobile phone with bluetooth I could use it as a modem,
> I know it works as I have already used it this way from Windows XP and
> although data is quite expensive text only mode works out fine. Now the
> problem I have with OpenBSD is this:
>
> I configured ppp.conf with the phone number I have to dial to connect to
> the internet which is *99# (yes an asterisk and a hash but that is the
> number, and it works with windows), then I configure the password and
> username I save the ppp.conf and:
>
> ------------------------------------
> #ppp myisp
> Working in interactive mode
> using interface: tun0
> #dial
> Warning:Chat script failed
> -----------------------------------
>
> Something is failing and I am quite new in Unix and OpenBSD I do not work
> in IT, so some help appreciated, my main doubts are:
>
> 1) I write ppp.conf based on the ppp.conf.sample I do not know if I need
> to delete everything that I am not using and it is not under the comment
> (#) mark, in my ppp.conf I only leave scripts containing the modem device
> and the part where my phone number is, I delete all the rest. Exemple: the
> original ppp.conf.sample is 10k, my ppp.conf is 2k as I have deleted
> everything is not used to avoid this interfering with the rest.
>
> 2)In the ppp.conf where it says modem device I leave the default dev/cua01
> , I do not know if that is also the right one for a bluetooh device as I
> dont think it was intended for that.

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