Hi all,

I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite Series 3000 laptop sometime early
Sept 2001 and off-lately I have come to know about the following
configuration in this laptop.

1. NO Serial port. 3 USB ports available.
2. Toshiba Internal AMR modem configured (hardware) permanently in COM3
port. Toshiba is stating that its not possible to either remove (or
transfer) this configuration from COM3 port.

I stumbled across this configuration related features when I was trying to
connect to Internet from my laptop via my cellphone (Nokia) and am trying
to use the NOK6 cable and 3CXM756 Modem card from 3Com/USRobotics and tech
support team in US Robotics told me that because of the way my laptop is
configured with COM3 port permanently devoted to Internal modem, I will not
be able to get into internet through cellphone through COM3 port and all
the Modem cards are configured to read through COM3 port with no other
device using that port simultaneously.

It has been more than a week that I am trying to explore more on getting
this done but the more I look into it, I feel that I am getting far away
from what my original intentions was !!!! Could anyone having a Toshiba
Satellite laptop please help me out and let me know if they are also having
the same configuration features as I am having OR am I the lone one out ?
If any one has any better ideas other than "this is where new technologies
leads us to" then I would be glad to hear that... !!

With Best Regards
RAGHU. RAO


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