Now I understand. The serial CAT was designed to communicate with other programs such as?N1MM+ or WSJT-X. So it creates a virtual serial port with one end connected to Quisk and the other end to the program. This won't work with a real serial port on Linux. Linux users generally use Hamlib rig 2 for CAT. This uses a network connection. Or they use the Fldigi XML protocol.
It should be fairly easy to connect the current logic to a real serial port. I will add the feature to the next release.
Jim
N2ADR