Here is an interesting tutorial of how to access the internet on your laptop through your iPhone. This process will negate the use of the AT&T Edge card for your laptop. The tutorial is rather involved and complicated so if your not a computer tech, I would stay away for now. Im sure over time, there will be easier ways to do this.

Ron Paul, Republican Congressman and 2008 Presidential hopeful, announced today that he had successful modified an off-the-shelf iPhone (AAPL) to run Ubuntu, an open source Linux distribution popular with technology aficionados worldwide. With the aplomb of a hacker, Paul described in broad strokes the steps he took to alter the popular phone’s operating system in an hour-long press conference in the nation’s capital. Paul challenged Rudy Giuliani to read his report on his campaign website. I wonder if Rudy was interested?