Installed a wireless usb adapter to an old computer running windows 98

The Netgear Wireless USB adapter should be connected to your Avertec N1200 laptop to act as a wireless antenna. The driver for your Netgear Wireless Adapter should also be installed on your laptop. Once installed, click on the Windows Orb button on the lower left corner of your screen and go to All Programs. Look for the installed program for your Netgear Wireless Adapter to open up the wireless utility of your wireless adapter. That's where you should connect the wireless connection and not on Windows Wireless Manager.

As you said that you have reformatted the computer , try to reinstall your USB bus controller drivers because it seems that your USB bus controller is not detecting your USB adapter when connected.

Try this link to download USB 2.0 driver

http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/usb2-driver.html

Go to netgear.com site download the driver (if you don't already have it) for your system and device. Install driver and software before you hook ujp device then plug in when it tells you to.

first uninstall old usb drivers from computer then when you connect adapter it findas and then install its drivers.

Most netgear adapters will work.
They're around £20 and will connect to pretty much everything =)
They work on windows, from 98 i think. So aslong as the old tower has a sort-of up to date OS then it'll connect for you :)

Hope it helps.
Ed

I would take the dynex back to the store.
I have dynex and a brand new netgear router.Netgear is awesome!
Wife has netgear and hers is working fine and she is running vista!
Im running dynex and nothing but problems so easy fix is replace with netgear.
Goodluck
kingelviss

hello!

-- try to install the adapter to a diff slot/ port
-- try to uninstall the driver and use updated driver downloaded from the netgear website to reinstall the driver
-- unistall old driver or other adapter on the computer to avoid driver conflict

i had the same problem. i tryed downloading the sofware from other computer and install it on the wireless computer. finally i just connected it directly to a lan line and update drivers with windows

Is the computer Windows 98 SE [Second Edition] ?
What is the exact error message that you get ?

This is a driver problem, it may be windows generic driver that has installed; so if you have already installed the software, uninstall it and remove the adapter. Restart the pc, then insert the cd driver, but don't let it autorun, then re connect adapter and this time when it asks for the driver point windows to look on the cdrom for it instead of allowing the cd to run the installation.