Roman wrote: >It is not Pentax *istDS it's just no USB-device support under Windows >98. I had the same problem with my friends PC and webcam. > >You need either Windows 2000 or Windows XP with USB support. You won't >get neither *istDS nor any other USB device to work under Windows 98. >Please read knowledge base article from the Microsoft > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240075/
Note that that article only refers to certain hardware systems. Win98, in general, *does* support USB. Heck, I ran USB in Win95 OSR 2! The real problem is that most devices need dedicated drivers to connect to Win98 through USB and no one's writing these drivers any more. I had a laptop still running Win98 when I first got my ist-D and I had to get a card reader to connect via USB because there were no ist-D drivers for Win98 to allow me to connect the camera directly to the computer. (I'd use a card reader for file downloading anyway, but the real issue was being able to use Pentax Remote Assistant.) Plenty of card readers do have Win98 USB drivers.
