USB question

[undyingking]

Does anyone know how to tell whether a Windows 98 installation includes USB support or not?*

I have a vague memory that USB support was included in W98 SE and also in SP2, does that sound right? But should there be an easily-spottable item relating to it in the control panel, or the system properties tab, or something like that?

(This is for a relative's PC at some distance from here, as you probably guessed.)

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* There are no prizes for saying "Plug in a USB device and see if it detects it," because the PC in question has no USB ports.

Comments

[waistcoatmark.livejournal.com]

All versions of 98 had _some_ support of USB, it's just each version supported more and more things. I wouldn't trust anything short of 98SE to work with a random bit of USB hardware however.

NB Be very careful with USB expansion cards: I got Jacki's old machine a USB PCI card that ate 3 IRQs and wasn't very good at sharing them. With the result that the machine would freeze every day or two.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

I had the same experience. Machine would lock up when trying to add or remove any kind of mass storage. It was a crappy VIA card.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

This is one I used to use myself, and didn't have any problems with, so fingers crossed it'll be OK for my mum too. If it doesn't work, I'll have to set her up a wireless network and router, which I can see being a very painful procedure when undertaken solely by remote instruction of naive user.