Re: Legacy serial ports

That's what clued me to the absence. There is a USB entry that opens to
show 5 USBs and 5 USB hubs, but there is no entry for "Ports" which is
strange because I know I have a printer parallel port.

This is a new Toshiba Satellite M105-S304 notebook.

Jeff

LVTravel wrote:
To determine if XP has created a "logical" com port start
device manager. (Right click on My computer, left click on
manage then click on device manager. Click on the + by
Ports (COM & LPT). If no com port is listed, you don't have
one available.

If you have a physical port on the computer, you should also
show a logical port in Windows. If there is no physical
port in the computer, you may need to purchase a USB to
Serial port adapter cable and hopefully when you install the
cable, Windows will create a COM port for it.


"Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eVRvBrS3GHA.4764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi
I have a new notebook PC with the new Intel duo-core cpu
running XP MCE. The
manual does not tell me if I have a legacy com port. I
looked in the Device
Manager and cannot find any mention of legacy serial
ports, only USB ports.
I need a com port for an old Windows 3.1 program to run.
Don't actually need the com port for communication. It
just needs to exist because without it being present the
legacy program freezes and crashes.

How do I find out if a COM1 or COM2 port exists? Is there
a command line I
can use to find out or to create one?

Thanks.

Jeff



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