I struggled with this for hours back about a year ago when I had a notebook that I wanted to run 98SE on.

The trick is to find cards with NIC chips that have Win98 drivers. Fortunately I had a Linksys WPC54G version 2 (v2) that had a TNET1130 chip. I found some generic drivers that were for 98SE and came with the absolutely required WLAN utility (Win98 has no wireless connectivity at all). It worked with even WPA2 AES!

Another card using this chip is ZyXEL G-162. I imagine there are many cards that used it.

Drivers I found:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/im6o47weaod6597 … er_7_0_1_33.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/vj0q23oqbess3sg … 62%20Driver.zip (same chip drivers but not sure if these are needed)

Thanks. I'll hit eBay for one of those.

Cisco Aironet 350 has DOS/Win3x/Win9x/WinNT+ drivers, but it's WEP only and 802.11b (and I can't get the WEP to work, but Wireless Windows 3.1 is awesome!).

There is a card I have with a special pop-out antenna that has great drivers for Win98/ME and supports WPA2. Can't recall the model/brand ATM but if you need it msg me and I'll go find it for ya.

Edit: It was a 3com card.

Edit 2:

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp … e&sku=3CRPAG175

This--^

If I linked the wrong model (doubtful) let me know, but the one I have looks identical to that and has 98SE drivers and does WPA2 just fine.

Conceptronic C54RC (I believe that's the model), or any other wirh Ralink 2500 chipset. They're cheap and support WPA (but I think it's more a software than a hardware thing).

I have a Ralink 2500 card and I couldn't find software that supported WPA in Win98. It worked with Win2K though.