Brian, You can have both master and slave connections simultaneously, just like you can be slave to more than one master. In both cases it means your adapter is in different piconets. There are rules about whether devices can refuse the master/slave switch. It's been some time since I read this so I can't remember, but maybe it's the initiating device that starts out as slave and the remote device has to agree to a role switch. So you should be able to force the headset to cooperate, even if it's refusing role switches, by changing who initiates that connection in addition to a link policy that keeps your adapter as master. Brad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html