Wireless in Legacy Win98SE Box

I'm having such interesting results with my other thread that
maybe I'd better get my other problem worked out as well:

I have a box that is running Win98SE because it supports a legacy
outboard device without drivers for a later OS. OK, I should like
to get it to access my wireless router with a wireless card, but I
am having a real headache getting that up and running. This is
sort of a compound mess, but I'll try to be as organized as I can
in describing the problem:

I have a couple of new PCI g-cards I can use, an AirLink101
(Ralink 2500 chip) and a CompUSA (RTL8185L chip). I'd prefer to
use the Ralink because it appears to be better shielded and this
is going into a dedicated audio recording computer where added
noise is highly undesirable.

The problem is with the supplied istallation packages on the CDs.
They attempt to force-install proprietary wireless utilities to
start on load, which Win98SE doesn't like, plus they do that
irritating thing of requesting the Win98SE install CD to set up a
network, which I don't want. Needless to say, my Win98SE install
CD has a screwed-up file on it that's required for that rigmarole
anyway. [sigh]

When I finally get the drivers and the utility installed, Win98
won't boot properly until I remove the wireless utility and clean
up the registry mess. Typical Win98SE headache!

What I want to do is this: Install the drivers of the wireless
device and get it set up WITHOUT a network, at least not yet. I
then want to have the wireless utility, or _some_ wireless
utility, NOT try to load on boot and just be available to invoke
when I want to use the wireless to access the Internet...without
all the bluescreens and corruption and crashes and registry
cleaning attendant to anything Win98SE finds the least bit
frightening. Doesn't seem like asking a lot, but I haven't been
able to get it done.

Yes, I could just do an Ethernet connection, but that would
require a really bad cable run I'd like to avoid if I can just get
a wireless-g card working.

As always, thanks for any help!

Wow, no thoughts on this one at all? 8-(

On 9 Feb 2006 22:36:45 -0000, in alt.internet.wireless , Anchoret
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Wow, no thoughts on this one at all? 8-(

What was the question?
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