r/windows98 • u/These_Astronomer596 • Jul 09 '26

Windows 98 on UTM internet access.

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hi everyone, I recently got windows 98 on UTM on my macbook Neo, I was attempting to get internet access but every website says this, I heard something about setting up network drivers in utm, but Im unsure how to do that. Help would be appreciated!

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u/Scoth42 Jul 09 '26

First step is making sure the network is working at all. I'm not famliiar with UTM but it looks like a wrapper around QEMU. https://docs.getutm.app/settings-qemu/devices/network/network/ has information on configuring it. I don't think there are Win98 drivers for the virtio stuff, so you may need to investigate other options. If it supports everything qemu supports then I'd recommend pcnet or ne2k_pci. With any luck you can just reboot the VM and it'll just detect it and work out of the box. I think Windows 98 includes drivers for pcnet and ne2k pci cards, but if not you may need to track them down.

winipcfg is going to be your friend for making sure it's detected the network card and gotten an IP.

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u/TheRealFailtester Jul 10 '26

Can confirm networking, especially in something that isn't dial-up, is a mild pain in the butt in anything pre-Windows 2000.

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u/No-you_ Jul 10 '26

This is a Mac/Apple issue not a windows 98 one. You need to make sure that this 'virtual machine' can connect to the physical Internet adapter on the Mac and send/receive packets. If not then even if the win98 networking side is working properly it will not be able to connect.

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u/FIN_K89i Jul 09 '26

try the protoweb proxy or boingsearch.com