Wireless Adapter

Norfork Nights

Hey there,

Im looking for some advise as my head is now wrecked.

I have a wireless network at home (Linksys Router)and a few PC's at home are connected to the network and its working well.
I recently repaired a old desktop and stuck Windows 98SE on it. Its working well and pretty fast actually.
So now here's the problem.
I have a Linksys Wireless Network Adaptor (WUSB54GS Ver 2.1) and I'm trying to join this old pc onto the wireless network using this adaptor but guess what the adaptor says only for use with Windows ME or XP. So when you try and install the software it comes up with that message.

What am I to do. Do I need to go out and fork out on a network adaptor that is Win98 compatible or is there a way of getting this other one working?

A message that I found on the net suggests there is but it wont work for me


All help appreciated

JohnnieM

IMO It can be hard enough to get a network pci card to work in win 98.. I'd imagine getting a wireless lan card installed could be even difficult..if I had to though, i'd try install the lan card my self. can pick them up for a fiver these days .unless of course it has to be wireless?

bbbbb

I can't remember the details, but I got a buffalo (I think) wireless card working on a W98 machine. Signal strength wasn't great, so I ended up getting a wireless ethernet bridge which I could put at the other side of the room, and a pci ethernet card instead.
Another possibility would be to put linux on the machine and install firefox (if all you're doing is web browsing?).
You can try out ubuntu by burning it onto a CD & booting your pc off it (doesn't install until you tell it).
Wireless cards can be tricky, but there are good FAQs out there. To see if the system has picked up the card and what model it is use:

sudo lspci

after that, google is your friend.

Norfork Nights

Hi & thanks for the reply.

Yes It needs to be wireless as its a good 15/20mtrs away from any other Pc or access point!

Can a wireless PCMCIA card be installed easily in a standard old type PC running windows 98 ? Or am I best off getting a usb network adapter thats compatible with Win98|SE


RE: Linux - I tried it. I loaded up Fedora Core 3 (Graphic Interface) and it was seriously slow. Would Ubuntu be faster ?. The PC is just for web browsing and storing MP3's. Its flying with Win98 though faster than XP! (which wouldn't be hard I suppose on an old machine)


Thanks
N.N.

bbbbb

Ubuntu says it requires a min 256MB of RAM (no mention of CPU).
I originally put Suse 8.3 on the old pc. The box says anything from a celeron up, 64MB Ram min, 128MB recommended. (Suse is now 10.2)

Norfork Nights

I think its a celeron processor with 64megs of ram!

formatman

Linksys WMP55AG is a decent enough PCI wireless card with 98SE drivers available

Norfork Nights

Hi there.
Would it be tough to install in a fujitsu siemens tower pc. It's from about 1998.
And i'm no pc genius!