Interesting, very useful. I was inspired months ago by this topic to grab a M70 myself & your experience finally gave me that push to actually proceed with it.
I bought a RTL8185L based on recommendations here, sadly my BIOS cannot recognize it and after a few power-ons the system refuses to POST with that card in (possibly defective?), so I put the included Wireless 1370 back in, which maybe I'll have better luck with once I get hold of the ideal 9x driver.
With a 60GB partition placed on my spare and stupidly overkill 256 gig mSATA SSD in a mSATA to IDE converter and a gig of dual channel ram (don't think i'm ready to go higher), I've managed to get 98SE installed with ACPI, no flags or nothing, so far working flawlessly, even with DMA enabled! I fixed all the device manager hardware duplicates+conflicts as per cov3rt's instructions and now ready to install drivers.
I downloaded a copy of that 100000 driver pack you used, burned to disk and managed to use it on 3 (USB, Audio, and one other thing) of those 5 Found New Hardware screens that showed pre-login. Now, Device Manager's showing Ethernet and Network Adapter (probably wifi) with exclamation marks, however I gotta feeling I need more than just that considering I still don't even have proper video yet.
Whenever logged into W98, I hear a very faint high-pitched buzzing noise from the laptop, which makes me wonder if I'm missing some chipset-like driver (assuming I need one) that deals with power management. I'm a little confused about your mention of LoneCrusader's ICH6 driver, does this require me to modify the Windows 98 ISO and re-install the OS from scratch, assuming I still need this?
There seems to be conflicting opinions on whether to go with official 66.94 or unofficial 82.69 Nvidia drivers. A friend tells me that 81.98 is the last official driver and is recommended for a geforce 6800 in 9x; I'd like to think this is worth trying first but I'm not completely sure yet.
After I get the drivers, I'll run June 2007 Autopatcher for updates and usability patches. After this, I assume I'd be ready to go
