Two boxes, both report same version of win98se, but I think the cab files may not have identical content-setups are on separate parititions from the boot partition, do not have cd. USB working on both fine. Box X USB wifi adapter drivers install and signal is achieved-appears to be working. When drivers installed they needed files from the cab files which I fed them. Box Y USB wifi adapter installs EXCEPT for IEEE 811.x protocol (under networking) and wifi software does not work, with msgsvr32 not responding. Software stalls and does not load. What can I do if anything to get Box Y to work same as X? What files in win98SE would effect install and operation of usb wifi drivers? Both machines appear to have identical windows networking stuff installed. Should I give up on win98se and conclude that wifi cannot be made to work reliably with this OS-judging from lots of others posts with problems with this OS and wifi. Trouble is my disk space is limited and would prefer not to install W2k. Do any of the update packages here or elsewhere address this problem? Any good solutions most welcome, thanks.