#WINDOWS 98 USB ADAPTER DRIVERS#
My main reason for needing USB 2.0 support is so I can load drivers onto a flash drive and transfer them to the Windows 98 computer to load drivers for the modem. What else could I do to get my Windows 98 SE PC to work with USB flash drives? Do I just need drivers, or is some other change required? I am following the procedures available online for getting Windows 98 to work with USB 2.0.
#WINDOWS 98 USB ADAPTER DRIVER#
I extracted the files for the second driver but I found just a bunch of ".sys" files. I'm not so sure though, given my problems so far. I believe someone is getting an external US Robotics 56k modem for me on eBay at the moment, and my hunch is external modems are more reliable than internal modems so that one may work more seamlessly. This wouldn't be as important if I could get one of the modems to work, but right now neither is working. I have nothing against floppy disks, really, but being able to use USB flash drives would be far more practical. But when I plugged a flash drive in again, the Add New Hardware Wizard no longer opened automatically, and the flash drive was still not recognized in my computer.
I then loaded the floppy disk and manually ran the. To test it out, I plugged a flash drive into the computer and the Add New Hardware Wizard opened and prompted for drivers. I loaded the following drivers onto a floppy disk, and brought it home: I have a PS/2 keyboard and mouse so flash drives here are my main concern.
My research shows that there are third-party drivers available that allow Windows 98 SE to work with USB 2.0 devices including flash drives. The problem is, since this computer is 20+ years old, it only works with USB 1.1. I thought perhaps maybe I didn't have the right drivers, so I decided to load some on. Nowhere in the system was either the NIC or the second modem recognized. I ran the wizard but it didn't detect any new hardware. The "Add New Hardware" wizard did not open by default. It didn't boot the first time but I cycled the power and it booted up fine, more or less. I had a Dell Dimension 8200 laying around that had Windows XP, so I opened it up and took out its internal modem, and the NIC, for good measure. The modem shows up in certain system dialogs but none of the dialers - HyperTerminal, Phone Dialer, etc. I recently tried using the internal modem on the computer - a 56k Compaq modem - for the first time. It's been handed down a few times, and I don't recollect it ever being online but it does have a version of Firefox from 2007 so I could be wrong about that.
I have a Compaq desktop computer running Windows 98 SE.
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