There's a bunch of stuff here - SMC (WD) StarCard PLUS (WD/8003S) Win3.1?
That card may be too old for dedicated Win98SE drivers, but Win95 drivers should work as well.
And I wouldn't be surprised if Win98SE already had appropriate drivers built-in...

Yes !...That is an SMC Elite Ultra 16 version or SMC 8003, 8013, 8216 based on a VCfed forum post and this: https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_network_c … te16_ultra.html
The drivers from wayback machine for those list DOS, WfW 3.11, NT 3.51 and Win95. The 8416 uses the 83c795 chip and uses same DOS and some other drivers so maybe it's Win9x driver will work...
Ok the Win9x NDIS driver version for Win98 lists: "*pnp81c8.DeviceDesc="SMC EtherCard Elite16 Ultra (8216, 8216C, 8216T)" in the INF so it should work.
Get the file named "ether.exe" here: https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/drivers/SMC/EtherEz_8416/ it matches the file listed SMC's wayback page....
for other files: the gez122.exe is DOS driver, gpk115.exe is the packet driver.
"dia401.exe" is Diagnose utility for Elite and Ultra Adapters : https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/drivers/SMC/Elite16/dia401.exe
added: you do not need those other files unless you specifically want to install in DOS, the "ether.exe" also has them but will not fit on a floppy disk ;p

Thanks, finally when I run Install new hardware with auto scan it detected the NIC by itself. But what is extremely strange when the NIC was detected on ATC-1000 i430FX board and Windows 98SE reports that device is working properly the NIC was unable to communicate over the network. DHCP failed, manual IP assign failed. LAN switch shows that NIC is active and even transfers something during boot. Windows hangs when I try to close it. Then I switched to GA-586T2 i430TX board with same NIC and same drives. Now everything works fine without touching anything.

foxbat wrote on 2022-10-15, 20:29:

Thanks, finally when I run Install new hardware with auto scan it detected the NIC by itself. But what is extremely strange when the NIC was detected on ATC-1000 i430FX board and Windows 98SE reports that device is working properly the NIC was unable to communicate over the network. DHCP failed, manual IP assign failed. LAN switch shows that NIC is active and even transfers something during boot. Windows hangs when I try to close it. Then I switched to GA-586T2 i430TX board with same NIC and same drives. Now everything works fine without touching anything.

IRQ conflict, maybe .

Yeah, this is about IRQs. Looks like ATC-1000 BIOS is unable to handle those SMC cards properly. I had to turn off 'PnP BIOS Auto-Config' in BIOS 'PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP' and remove IRQ10 from available list. But even then the only success I got was that the card was able to get config from DHCP but still no data transmission was possible, even ping didn't work. On GA-586T2 with i430TX I also had to turn off 'PnP BIOS Auto-Config' in BIOS and manually assign IRQ10 to Legacy ISA but then card works normally.

Glad you got it working !

Yeah, this teminds me of my early ISP tech support days (1997 onward) dealing with D-Link DE-220 and SMC 8416 variants on the ISA side and SMC 1208 variants on the PCI side.

Silent IRQ conflicts were definitely a thing (especially with undetected non PNP ISA devices "hiding" in people's PCs after reinstalling Windows).

Glad it works!