On 12/20/2013 04:13 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > Use netcat to create the listen and redirect to a serial port: > $ nc -l 2112 > /dev/ttyS0 > > Then in another window, run minicom at /dev/ttyS0 Is this on the same machine? I.e. you have only one machine and one serial port? Do you have some sort of loopback cable connected to the serial port? If it is on two different machines I would check handshaking settings on the serial ports. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, mk at lemo.dk http://www.lemo.dk