we have a dwl-610 wireless network card that we want to use on a laptop running windows 98 and the card simply will not load up under this version of windows. it loads up under windows me and 2000, but we dont want to run those os's, to much for this little laptop. anyway, on the driver cd it says it will work on Windows 98/98SE, but neither works. is there maybe a windows update or a driver update that works on this version of windows with this card? if anyone can help, please respond.

I had a similar problem and the workaround I came up with was to buy a cheap wireless access point and, via a standard network card, wire the machine directly into that - this also got around my problem of the wireless network card needing a faster processor to drive it. I admit that this may make the laptop less than portable but I think you are pushing things to get such an old machine to work on uptodate hardware

I think the problem is likely more driver than cpu speed. I have a Linksys 'b' card that runs on a 120MHz Pentium.

we got it working, se aparently needed to be pushed into loadin the driver for the card, now it works fine. and that outdated hardware thingy isnt true, im usin the identical laptop (compaq armada 1700 PII 233) but with a Dlink 802.11b wireless the Air plus series dwl-650+ and it works fine on windows 98 first edition. anyway, the card is workin now. thanks anyway.