I recently followed the instructions listed in the following link to get my RT3290 bluetooth working on my laptop. These instructions have yielded the most progress I have had in the year I have had this laptop. My machine now sees my bluetooth, I can scan for and see devices, and other devices and see my laptop, but pairing continually fails.

Ralink RT 3290 Bluetooth Problem on Ubuntu 14.04

-lscpi reads

04:00.1 Bluetooth: Ralink corp. RT3290 Bluetooth

-rfkill list reads

0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

-dmesg | grep Blue reads

[    5.965811] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.17
[    5.965833] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    5.965840] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    5.965842] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    5.965847] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    6.038085] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    6.038088] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[    6.038096] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[    6.058013] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[    6.058024] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[    6.058029] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

Any one have any thoughts or ideas I could try? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.