Okay... we have an update about this laptop with 10.3...
1. Sound: still need to use the latest rsync from alsa as previously described.
2. Wireless- Works with Ndiswrapper and the driver, net5211.inf-- however, you MUST blacklist ath_pci or you get the infamous 'Hardware did not respond as expected'.
3. Webcam: works out of the box.
4. Modem-- Toshba Softmodem that is detected by Alsaconf... but I don't know what to do with it.
5. Hotkeys-- no luck, as the 'toshiba' module does not support this model yet.\

Any suggestions appreciated.