Windows 9x also comes with drivers for this NIC and will detect it automatically during installation. Whoever told you you needed to change the NIC type was pulling your leg, because the default for Windows 9x guests (AMD PCnet-FAST III) works fine. Michaln wrote:The emulated AMD PCnet device is an Ethernet NIC, not a modem. Sep 2008, 17:09 Primary OS: MS Windows 10 VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: Mostly XP mpack Site Moderator Posts: 35805 Joined: 4. I found that the most updated browser available which still runs on Win98 was Opera.Īnother point to bear in mind is that Win98 networking is slightly harder to configure than XP and later - not quite so many self-configuring features, so Google is your friend when it comes to fixing a specific Win98 networking issue. Of course the Internet Explorer version native to Win98SE is way out of date and can't display a lot of modern websites properly. The setup CD had native drivers for this NIC. I'm not using NAT, though that shouldn't make any difference really). My VM simulates a PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973) adapter, and I'm bridging to my host NIC (i.e. I had no particular trouble gettings Win98 networking to run - and I just checked that it's still working, which it is. There's no requirement to change the network setting to NAT, although it certainly is usually the easiest to set up, provided you had working internet on your host PC.
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