already thought of that, i even tried running the script as root.

it seems to have no problem with me print()ing to the serial port, but reading in any data, it's as if the module doesnt even see the port is there. 
# it seems to have no problem here
print SERIAL $IM{'POL'};

# but HERE...
read(SERIAL,$data,$BUFFER);

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In reply to Re^2: Difficulties with Device::SerialPort by EvanK
in thread Difficulties with Device::SerialPort by EvanK

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