diff --git a/utils/minicom/Makefile b/utils/minicom/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf60e53ec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/minicom/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2014 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=minicom
+PKG_VERSION:=2.7
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3977/
+PKG_MD5SUM:=7044ca3e291268c33294f171d426dc2d
+PKG_MAINTAINER:=Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
+
+PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0
+PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING
+
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+
+define Package/minicom
+  SECTION:=utils
+  CATEGORY:=Utilities
+  DEPENDS:=+libncurses
+  TITLE:=Terminal emulation program
+  URL:=http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/
+  SUBMENU:=Terminal
+endef
+
+define Package/minicom/conffiles
+/etc/minirc.dfl
+endef
+
+define Package/minicom/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/sbin
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/src/$(PKG_NAME) $(1)/usr/sbin/
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/src/ascii-xfr $(1)/usr/sbin/
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,minicom))
diff --git a/utils/minicom/patches/100-fix_iconv_include.patch b/utils/minicom/patches/100-fix_iconv_include.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..88190faae4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/minicom/patches/100-fix_iconv_include.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- a/src/minicom.c
++++ b/src/minicom.c
+@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@
+ #include <getopt.h>
+ #include <wchar.h>
+ #include <wctype.h>
++#ifdef HAVE_ICONV
+ #include <iconv.h>
++#endif
+ #include <limits.h>
+ 
+ #define EXTERN