Clearly, I was not exploring enough. The BNEP driver is built into the kernel on Diablo.

I pulled the old pand and hcitool utilities from a back up I had from OS2007, and they work fine under Diablo! I have even used my old shell script to connect to my laptop via IP over Bluetooth. Works like a charm.

Why did I do it this way? Because I didn't want to lose my wlan0 interface when connected to bluetooth. Afterall, this is linux, it can handle more than one interface being active at a time. Of course the downside is that I must manually connect, but I don't mind.

I have put a deb with pand and hcitool at:
http://www.makikiweb.com/n800/downlo....0-1_armel.deb

Just download and install:
dpkg -i os2007_pand_tools-1.0.0-1_armel.deb

The old pand how-tos still work:
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HOWT...othNetworking/
http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN

So if you had PAN working before (with OS2007), then go ahead and connect again using the old pand utility.

I hope this helps,

Craig...