COM ports, Modems and 'XT Serial' drivers

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Hi there,

I'm renovating an old laptop (a Mitac 5033) for my partner, and I'm having
trouble getting the modem to work. When win 2000 boots up the "Found new
Hardware Wizard" appears and I cannot find a driver for it (searching on
machine and internet). If I turn the internal com port for the modem off in
the BIOS, I don't get this error. Whichever, on or off, I still don't get
any com ports to attach the modem to when installing the driver. If I try to
manually 'create' a com port the port 'cannot start' and I've tried a number
of address/IRQ configurations (but not all of them, I got bored after
rebooting the laptop of the tenth time).

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

- Adam.