Barry Samuels asked:
I have just got Bluetooth working on my Thinkpad (Debian Testing/Squeeze) and it will pair with my Android 'phone but the signal keeps fluctuating. The link quality between 100% and -1%, the strength between 58% and -1 and it does this at around 2-5 second intervals.
It does it even when the 'phone is next to the laptop. Can anyone suggest a reason for this?
No idea if they're any good, but I can suggest two:
1. interference from another badly-behaved Bluetooth device nearby;
2. some incompatibility between the implementations.
I think there's something you can install on a Debian system to dump the bluetooth traffic in copious detail, but I don't remember its name. Then you can try to compare an example working session with what your devices are doing.
Is performance actually impacted? What's reporting the link quality? Could it be a buggy reporting routine? (Wasn't the iphone's signal strength partly a buggy reporting routing?)
Hope that helps,