However, this is still a horrid kludge - it would be sensible if NM could see the PAN profile being advertised by my phone (which has been paired using the GNOME bluez tray applet) and treat it as a possible network adapter just as it does eth0 and wlan0
I get my Windows Mobile 6.1 'Internet Sharing' connection to work using PAN by doing this:
sudo pand -r PANU -c 00:22:A5:18:D7:E4 (needs bluez-compat installed)
sudo dhclient bnep0
However, this is still a horrid kludge - it would be sensible if NM could see the PAN profile being advertised by my phone (which has been paired using the GNOME bluez tray applet) and treat it as a possible network adapter just as it does eth0 and wlan0