This great article describes the process of getting your Samsung i780 (and any other phone supporting Internet Sharing via PAN) to work as a bluetooth modem in Linux Ubuntu 8.10.
The only thing that I have to note is that described steps didn’t work for me until I added one additional string to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto bnep0
After that I was able to connect to the internet through my phone flawlessly!
Okay, so I’ve been desperately trying to make my phone (Samsung SGH-i780) work as a modem in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) and finally managed to! For those who’ll possibly stumble upon this post and who are interested to know how to make it work — here’s how to do it:
First of all, a small introduction. When you want to use the phone as a modem, you usually connect the phone via USB and then use it as a modem device to dial your ISP to get connected to the internet using pppd, gnome-ppp, etc.
Well, I’ve spent hours trying to define my i780 as a modem… But I was surprised to know that all you really need to do is:
And this is literally all you need — your computer should be connected to the internet. The phone is presented with one of eth devices (eth2 in my case) in the system. No pppd nightmare, no nothing — it’s that simple 
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I finally got sick of Vista and totally erased it from my computer. The new OS of choice is… (Guess what?) Linux Ubuntu! I find myself loving it more than anything else I’ve ever used. And so I decided to install it on my laptop as a primary and only operating system. I love the fact that everything is so easy to configure as you like. Mac OS X interface? No problem, few commands in the console, few clicks — you got it! The Ubuntu community is really cool — you can go to google, type the problem that you experience and you’re almost guaranteed to get a solution on ubuntu forums.
And what amazes me most — you install it and you’re ready to go, pretty much. It’s not that ‘do-it-yourself’ linux constructor that was out there say 5 years ago. It’s totally friendly for users.
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