RS232 shifter board trouble

So I got the rs232 shifter board kit from the tutorial http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/presen … ringBasics

and assembled it and the problem is I’m not getting loop-back. I know because I assembled it, it could be any number of problems but its weird because the leds blink when I type in the terminal but I’m just not getting any output. If anyone has run into this problem before and is willing to share that’d be great.

Do you have the TX and RX wires shorted together?