There is an old PC with Windows 98 SE on board, how do I set up WI-FI on it, there is also a wi-fi adapter usb tp-link 821 when connected to a PC, it writes an unknown device and tries to install the hardware by inserting a Windows disk into the drive, but On the disk with no firewood on the office. The link is also firewood only for 2000 XP 7 8 FOR 98 NO.

The question is, is it even possible to connect through wi-fi on Windows 98?

  • This is not a laptop but a PC RAM 256 percent AMD K-6 233Mhz (I want to try to install xubuntu 12.04 but I’m not sure if it will work on such a process?) - anjoli
  • Damn Small Linux, or another distro designed for old / low-power systems (google on this topic) will start on such a machine with a guarantee. Try to find drivers, focusing on the pid / uid device: there are corresponding sites. In any case, you need to work closely with search engines. - Justicet

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Good day!
There are two ways out:
1. Either we try to find firewood for the 98th;
2. Either put Khryusha.
I would prefer installing XP. Tell me, plz, the characteristics of the laptop (my XP worked on a P-III 500Mhz 320 MB RAM on the TP 600x laptop).
3. Yes, working with Wi-Fi on the 98th is possible, but we need drivers and a control program from third-party developers (because the 98th, as far as I remember, does not have any Wi-Fi management applications).

  • As an option, there is also Windows FLP (XP for obsolete computers). It is here: 2admina.net/page/windows-dlja-staryh-kompjuterov-windows-flpSam installed on a similar (see below) configuration, and it works fine. Modern versions of the prog there really are not installed, but you can always find older ones. - areshin

Greetings! Enough options written. If purely for the Internet, a laptop is needed, then I would use either the Windows FLP, described above, or Lubuntu, a kind of Linux. With a 98 percent probability that for Windows 98 there are no drivers for the Wi-Fi adapter.