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I've took a look at the .sys file itself. The one from my Atheros' WiFi card is designed with 9x in mind, the Realtek USB WiFi one is not. I'm afraid there will be no drivers for your USB WiFi dongle. Code 2 in non-Win9x Network drivers means no luck, the VXD of Win98SE does not understand the SYS file, sorry. In the future, try to find out the device ID of the device before you buy it. Then, check if the drivers are available. In this way, you won't waste time. That's how I knew what WiFi card to buy for my ThinkPad. Just a tip from experience

Earliest I can find is for Windows 2000: http://drivers.zedt.eu/sd/Wireless/Edimax EW-7811Un/20101210_v1.08_windows/88_92_CU_Driver/Win2K/ Try editing the INF to make it similar to a Win9x compatible WiFi adapter INF, like this one I use in my ThinkPad T42p: ftp://ftp.eutronix.be/4pos/POS700/POS700_V1.0/Common/Wireless_LAN/802.11abg/UNEX_CM10/Win98_ME/DV4.1.2.71/Driver/98Me/ Look for "ATHER Win9x specific" - Win9x expects ndis3, while the Win2K inf has ndis5 written, and different strings...

You're not alone. I would like to know such things as well. Here are just some thoughts from the top of my head in no particular order: Win9x was relevant from 1995 to about 2004ish (when XP SP2 was released). Good thing is to limit books/articles released in that time period. IDA Pro is a nice tool (a must?) to have while dealing with Win9x. @rloew might give some ideas as well. Try looking in old articles from The Wayback Archive. Look inside Win9x disks content, there might be references to some books (tours/guides/cd sampler thingies alike). Download and have a look inside the SDKs. I know that Visual Studio 2005 is last version to compile Win98 compatible stuff. (even if you have to compile apps inside WinXP) Learn about the limitations (limited API calls, Unicode support) Driver architecture (VXD, PDR, MPD) is unique to Win9x, so it's hard to make drivers, since you cannot use knowledge from other OSes. I would like for someone to dive deep into NTKERN.VXD - expand it so the NT compatibility is much greater, if even possible. Don't get your hopes high for writing ground-breaking drivers, Nouveau for Linux is made for decades and is not perfect. Maybe basic stuff like an universal better IDE driver to replace the Microsoft's default one, or an universal HD Audio driver is possible. But something like GPU drivers? Probably impossible. Keep in mind that a lot of the Win9x kernel is still 16-bit and even DOS based, making it even harder to improve it!

You can try the old Network Indicator from here:

I'm pretty sure this update pack is not suited for 486 machines. It's for those people who really do not like Win98FE/SE/ME Delta City got a big update, it should include everything a 95 user might possibly need, now on 3 ISO files! Check it out here! http://deltacity.stare.pro/

At least the site is compatible with old browsers/OSes. That's the spirit. Author claims some updates will be on the way. Has anyone tried to do automated WinSock2 installer for 95? It doesn't use the same update mechanism as other updates.

https://deltacity.stare.pro/ Found this recently, looks pretty cool. Claims to be better than MDGx stuff.

Try flashing an older BIOS, maybe the latest one causes trouble in 98SE. Also try unplugging as much stuff as you can inside your laptop (modem and other not necessary stuff)

Umm...looking at your laptop, it uses the SiS 650 chipset. It should be fully compatible with 98SE without any setup switches or anything. Don't know why you have such problems. Did you update to the latest BIOS? How much RAM do you have? If more than 512MB, remove some. For drivers look up "sis 650 windows 98" and "sis 650 gigabyte" in Google. Also the official SiS website of course: http://w3.sis.com/download/agreement.php?url=/download/ I don't know about WiFi drivers (which might be one major problem), since I do not know the WiFi module. Does the laptop work fine with other OS like XP? Maybe the hardware is faulty. Try installing with a clean hard drive and just straight OEM CD/retail CD with bootdisk without any switches or modifications.

Only if the programs are made with rloew's API. I'm still waiting for a 98SE source code leak, Russians, where are you? We can add hacks, stubs, new API's on top of the existing 1999 files, but for how long?

Is that malware from recent years? Or old malware that is not commonly found on the new Web, unless specifically looking for it? I'm talking about executables, other types are exploited no matter what OS you're running.

Try these solutions: 1. Limit the RAM to 512MB, put MaxPhysPage=20000 in the [386enh] section in the C:\Windows\System.ini file 2. Use older drivers, not 81.98, but 45.23, you can find them here: http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/45.23/45.23_win9x_english.exe The uninstaller from 81.98 drivers does not work, you should be able to install them anyways.

Well, when I install 98SE with 98lite using the Chubby option, my DxDiag also hangs on DirectPlay, and on the next startup, asks if you want to skip DirectPlay in DxDiag. Try installing 98SE normally without 98lite.

Try to find older drivers ,https://www.driverguide.com might help, it's a good site now, unlike it was years ago. It can show INF files inside the drivers, so you can check if they will work with your device ID. Also try installing older DirectX, like 8.1 and not 9.0c. (that is if no of your games use 9.0c) (probably needs a reinstall of the system) If everything fails, best bet is to buy very cheap generic Realtek/3COM PCI NIC's.

If we can patch/hack/port all DOS/W9x games onto modern systems, why would we run DOS/W9x in the first place? Why would the retro thing (1999 PC's and earlier) grow into popularity in the recent years? People have interest in running original hardware and original software.

Well, when I had an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ back in 2015 , YouTube Flash player did work better on it.

http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/wiki/Opera Opera 12.02 is probably THE MOST modern browser you can run. YouTube works, because it's using the HTML5 player, which Opera 12.02 supports. YouTube DOES NOT have the flash player version any more, it was removed. Now, the flash player version did work better on slower machines. Since it was removed, people are not happy with the performance of the HTML5 player under Opera.

PCI/XXXX is the HD Audio Bus/physical device. This is the only thing that 9x sees. HDAUDBUS/XXXX is the ID/virtual device generated by the HD Audio Bus, when the HD Audio Bus drivers is installed. (available from Win2000 onwards) Do not confuse HD Audio Bus driver with the HD Audio driver. I do not have the knowledge to know if the HDAUDBUS/XXXX is actually necessary for proper function of HD Audio, but it seems it is not required judging by the watler's driver. It's installed in the same way as the Win3.1 PC Speaker driver, which people was using back in the day in their 9x systems. The INF created by @deomsh does nothing more than copying the files and making the line in the system.ini file. @MERCURY127 did you load up the HDATSR.EXE file before installing/using the driver? Did DOS boxes work for you? (seems similar to the VBEMP bug) Do you use HIMEMX.EXE? I will test the driver myself soon.

Wow! Could this be the next major breakthrough in 98SE history?

I'm eager to test HD Audio! What's a 16-bits HDA driver? Does it have something to do with MPXPlay?

7800/7900 GTX is not available in AGP, I'm pretty certain @loblo talks about AGP cards.

I'm talking about these .386 files (example picture from the web): It seems like your card uses Texas Instruments ACX 111 (aka TNETW1130) chipset. https://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/texas instruments_tnetw1130_prod_bulletin.pdf This document says it supports WPA, AES and 802.11i draft (WPA2). Although I don't know if draft = support, but it seems to be working for you, so that's good I've found the proper drivers now, seems fully compatible with 98SE/ME/2000/XP. No Vista+ drivers I could found. Nice found, definitely will help some people.

For slow speeds, use TCPOptimizer 3, and apply the VIP.386 (and others in Device Manager where is the network card) patches, if they are available in your language. Nice site to test on, BTW What is the hardware ID of the WIFI card? I mean the VEN and DEV. I have an Atheros AR5005G in my IBM ThinkPad T40, and I use Odyssey for full WPA2 support on 98SE. I've looked at the drivers for your card, and found Atheros's hardware ID's. My hardware ID is: PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_001A

Does OP even has an AGP slot? We don't know. Best reasonable PCI card would be the GeForce FX 5200. I would not recommend the GeForce 6200 PCI. If OP has an AGP slot, I would recommend GeForce 4 Ti. Any model of that line.

Win95 and Win98 uses the same VXD/miniport model of video drivers. They will work. M$ designed it that way. What is that GPU model?