These RXTX files were just copied directly from the rxtx website http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Download Their versions are reported as: Native lib Version = RXTX 2.1-7r2 Java lib Version = RXTX 2.1-7r2 If you've never used RXTX before on your Mac OS X box, run the command: % ./macosx_setup.command And then shutdown (not just log out) and log back in again. And read this faq from Processing: http://processing.org/faq/bugs.html#serial