Blackberry Pearl as a modem on the mac

Hi-
I guess this is more of a pearl question...but here goes. My husband was able to use our Blackberry Pearl 8100 on his pc. Of course, the directions T-mobile provided for mac were out of date. I found these on another site: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/blackberrypearl_as_bluetooth_modem_withmac.html
The mac provides a code for the blackberry, but the mac is looking for a code from the blackberry. I changed the settings on the phone to always accept and I still have this issue.
Does anyone have experience with this? I'm on OS X 10.4.11 on my macbook and running v4.2.1.107 on the pearl.
Thanks!

You need to setup the Blackberry with the Mac's Bluetooth so they handshake. Start with Set up Bluetooth device in the Bluetooth menu.

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