I’m going to change my SIM card so I need to back up the old one on my Razr V3. The cd that came with the Razr didn’t work, so I don’t know if there’s anything on it for Linux.
Hence the attempt via the net.
While everything installed according to the meticulous directions at The Computech Group
and the Motorola for Linux manager appeared, it somehow didn’t connect with the phone.
[info] Phone pluged as AT
Try to connect
[error] Unable to connect
The terminal spews out this while launching the manager
root@Your-laptop:/home/you# sudo moto4lin
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0×0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0×0
Failed to open device
Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Form1
PhoneMan
New mode: 1
P2kProc::doConnect()
Of course I read down the comments but none of the solutions worked there either. Any help would be appreciated.

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