NLAlston

As some of you may know, I recently purchased an Emachine M-5305 laptop. Initially, it was going to be used solely for creating music (never to see the internet), but surfacing circumstances has called for the laptop to serve another role: secondary home computer. At any rate, we decided to put the laptop online, as our desktop was in use, and we ran across a couple of error messages. They were as follows:

In Device Manager

Connection Log
Attempt 1) [Conexant SoftK56 DataFax Modem]
the communication port is invalid or busy

In Device Manager/Diagnostics

OpenComm
The port that the modem is attached to could not be opened. This may be the result of hardware conflict. Check the device manager to verify all drivers are functional.
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I don't know what could be wrong, and wonder if maybe the phone jacks - in the laptop - are defective. The device manager first states that the modem is "working properly", but I get the above listed messages whenever I attempt to sign on to the internet. There is also a similar problem when I tried to update the driver in device manager.

Any ideas?

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Blessings,

Nathan