hi Titus, I would guess that the problem is related to a lack of flow control. But this isn't a ROS question; it's better directed to a forum on Linux serial port communications. brian. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Titus Appel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using ROS with Eclipse and I'm trying to get the serial port to work so > I can send commands to a robot platform.  I'm new to C++ so that might be a > problem.  The code compiles ok, but the problem is when I write to the > serial port what I wanted to write doesn't get written.  However when I set > a breakpoint at this line: > > cnt = write(port,&this->packet[byteNum],1); in src/packet.cpp > > and run each time it stops, the serial port writes the correct data in the > buffer. > My code is posted on: http://code.google.com/p/txt-ros/source/browse/ > > Any help would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Titus > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >