wifi on Win98se

[harveyw]

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.

[Chozo4]

Regadring the updates, you can find them in the "unnofficial Service Pack" forum above. I highly recommend the Unofficial SP and the USB *storage* updates.

Also, are you using the same exact driver pack? I'm assuming that your using the same adaptors even for both. Also, what type of adaptors? What brand and model?

I personally have been using WiFi on all my 98 machines for the last couple years with zero problems. I even go as far as dropping the WiFi client on the desktops and manually configure them in the device properties. The laptop retains the client for roaming profiles.

From experience, avoid Belkin adaptors if looking for wireless reliability. I've had nothing but headaches with my last set of belkin wifi hardware. Also, unless it's absolutely neccessary... you need not use the IEEE protocol. Just TCP\IP at the very least.

The machine that your IEEE protocol is 'not installing on' you should boot into safemode and check the device manager. There might be a conflict with the protocol\network device with something on your system. Whereas it's being installed but no longer displayed due to problems loading the device after normal loading thus causing further problems.

Also, go to run and type "ASD" to check if any Critical Operation Failures occurred due to it.

Edited February 1, 2006 by Chozo4