BlueSMiRF Silve with Ubuntu

I have been trying to get this working for a week or longer now. I have the bluesmirf silver and I can’t seem to get it to work. I can connect to it with rfcomm connect 0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx but than it only stays like that for around 15 seconds. Than it auto disconnects. Than it thinks it is still connected. I unpluged it, take out bluetooth and etc and it still thinks it is connected for a day or so.

so my question is

  1. How do I stay connected to my bluesmirf for more than 15 seconds?

  2. How can I make it disconnect so I can re-connect to it?