From what I know.


The N8*0 was never claimed by Nokia to support PAN. It supports DUN out of the box. To connect to a phone that uses PAN, you need pycage's maemo-pan from extras.

(sorry, misread that)


The tablet initates the PAN connection and because pan is a hack, it's not listed as supported.

Regarding sharing an N8x0's internet connection using PAN, usually this is done in Linux with BlueZ by using pand. pand is not shipped with the standard bluez install on the tablets but you can get it by installing bluez-utils-test:
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/dia...sso4_armel.deb

No idea how to use pand however.

That wiki article is outdated btw. That workaround is NOT needed since nokia finally put out an update for dummy connections. If you use that method and start up an ad-hoc connection, you will waste battery. Just installing maemo-pan is enough.