Drivers for Win98/Win98SE

manveruppd · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:39

Installing drivers for a PCMCIA network card onto an old lappy,and the included installation cd seems to only have drivers for Win98SE on it, whereas this thing is running vanilla-98, or, as I like to call it, Win98CE (crappy edition).

When the Add New Hardware wizard comes up, I point it towards the directory on the cd where the win98se drivers are, and it comes up with "Windows could not locate a suitable driver for your hardware". i'm quite surprised tbh, as I didn't know they had changed the driver architecture so much between the two versions of 98!

Is there any way to get the SE drivers to work, or would I need to install a different operating system on this thing?

Admiral Huddy · 16 Jul 2007 at 14:29

Firstly, why windows 98?.. You can pick up an OEM of XP for under £60 and Vista for not much more.

You have to consider that Win98 is no longer supported.

However, you could try here :

http://support.microsoft.com/ph/1139

or just google for specific drivers as and when you need them.

mattyrigby00 · 16 Jul 2007 at 14:52

98 is outdated, get xp or if its too slow for that maybe try and get 2k.

manveruppd · 18 Jul 2007 at 17:04

98 was on it, and it's a very old machine, wasn't even sure it would run 2k. In the end it did, but had to make 7 attempts to install it because its CD-ROM drive is old and dying and wouldn't read the installation CD. It's also a lot slower than it ran under 98, but I'll have to live with it.