wireless installation problem with Win98

**amyb** · June 9th, 2004, 10:41 AM

I have a Netgear MA401 wireless pc card. Windows 98's knows it's there and starts installing. The problem arose when asked for the Win98 CD. Couldn't find the file needed so the machine locked up and had to reboot. On reboot, blue screen city. I then tried to remove netgear via devices. Machine hung. Had to reboot and go into safe mode to remove. I thought maybe it was the other network card that was causing an IRQ conflict, so I removed it physically from the machine. Rebooted. Installation then was going effortlessly, when again had to put in the Win98 CD. Two files were older than what was on the machine (I'm not at home, so don't have all my notes), so of course I selected keep new file. Blue screen city then back to desktop where it just hanged.
Argh. Rebooted and there is a yellow exclamation mark beside the wireless card. It was getting late, so I had to close it down. There are no IRQ conflicts. What is going on?

**WebHead** · June 9th, 2004, 10:52 AM

1> Go to system properties. Remove the

2> Reboot

3> When it asks for the windows CD, be sure to type "D:\Win98" without quotes and replace D with your cd drive letter. Or you can point it to "C:\windows" or "C:\windows\system" When it asks if you want to keep the old files, yes. In other words think "Yes I do want to keep the OLD files"

* Also, before doing any of that, do this...

1> Go to netgear.com and get latest driver

2> Unpack or execute that driver.

3> Update the

driver and point it to the new one you just downloaded.

**amyb** · June 9th, 2004, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by WebHead

1> Go to system properties. Remove the

2> Reboot

3> When it asks for the windows CD, be sure to type "D:\Win98" without quotes and replace D with your cd drive letter. Or you can point it to "C:\windows" or "C:\windows\system" When it asks if you want to keep the old files, yes. In other words think "Yes I do want to keep the OLD files"

* Also, before doing any of that, do this...

1> Go to netgear.com and get latest driver

2> Unpack or execute that driver.

3> Update the

driver and point it to the new one you just downloaded.

I do type D:\win98. I did select "Yes" and that where it gets hung up. I have to reboot and start the whole process all over again.
That machine is not "online" for such downloads, so would have to do it here at work or from my other machine.