Network cards and Win98SE

Thanks for the tips. The reason I?m not using Ethernet cable is because the Vintage Computer Room (where this PC resides) is on the 2nd floor around a couple of corners, and my DSL modem/router and unfiltered phone line are in the 1st floor study. Would take a long run and some drilling, or duct taping it to the banister and hoping the dog and cats don?t eat it ;) However, after finally giving up on the wireless cards... I realized that I had a simple Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card in the PC junk pile. I installed that (it was recognized by 98SE and the drivers worked first time too), then brought my laptop upstairs and set it up as a bridge. That works, but is clumsy and requires another computer. My next idea was to find a wireless device to connect to the Ethernet card. I found out about WLAN, bridging, and most importantly, that many models of router can be reflashed with dd-wrt software, and act as the bridge I needed! Also in the closet was a Linksys E1200 router, which is one of the models supported by dd-wrt. So I flashed it and hooked it up. After a bit of struggle (incomplete directions but I managed to fill in the missing pieces) I now have wireless network and Internet access on the old machine :) Incidentally, PUTR now works perfectly since I?m running 98SE/DOS.