Serial connection problems

[PUDarkmatters]

I'm trying to use SecureCRT to check if a serial connection is functional, but I'm honestly not entirely certain what I'm doing. Can anyone shed some light on what's going on? I try to connect and I get a cursor that doesn't let me input anything. Trace is shown below:

SecureCRT - Version 6.2.3 (x64 build 313)
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Starting I/O thread 8240
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Open serial port[\\.\COM5] ==> Handle[1632]
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: BAUD-RATE=57600
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: PARITY=none
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: STOP-BITS=1
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: DATA-BITS=8
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: DSR-OUTPUT-FLOW-HONORED=no
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: DTR-CONTROL=enable/high/on
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: CTS-OUTPUT-FLOW-HONORED=no
[SERIAL-TRACE] : SERIAL-CONFIG: RTS-CONTROL=enable/high/on
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Duplicate handle[1632] --> New handle[1612]
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Comm State [CTS-OFF]
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Comm State [DSR-OFF]
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Comm State [RING-OFF]
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Comm State [RLSD-OFF]
[SERIAL-TRACE] : Close Handle[1632]