Anyone around here know how to make Win98 detect your own Wireless access point?

I have an OLD laptop with an 802.11/b PCMCIA card installed, but I cannot figure out how to make Win98 detect my wireless access point.

Using the set-up wizard yesterday, I was able to make Win98 connect to the Internet through the wireless card, but I have no idea what/who's access point it used.  When typing IPCONIFG at the command prompt, while connected to the internet, it said my default gateway was 192.168.0.1, while MY default gateway address is 192.168.1.254. 
 Hello
When u state WAP do u mean an access point or a wireless router. I know some people have itold me " I have WAP" , when truely it was a wireless router. IF u have a access point that is connect to a router make sure it is set to a static IP on the WAP. IF it is a wireless router set to DHCP. The laptop and the card are WORKING FINE so we can eliminate both devices. It seems u did not configure something right in either the WAP or router.  U post two gateways. I can only assume ONE is for the router and the other for the WAP.  Check your setting again, SSID, channel, your Ethernet connection to the WAP. Try setting the gateway of the WAP to the router default. Let us know what happens. Maybe he is on his next door neighbors D-Link wireless.Well I finally got connected to my Access Point (AT&T 2Wire Gateway).  The problem I believe (I may be wrong) was that by using Internet Connecton Wizard, it selected the first available access point it found, instead of my dad's, because I had not configured it to do otherwise.

I was able to locate some configuration options for the Wireless Card to remedy that, here:  START>settings>control panel>network>Wireless Card>Properties> advanced tab............It seems I am suppose to manually TYPE in my SSID and "Network Type", in which I selected "Access Point" (not "peer to peer", which was the only other option).  In a nut shell, I hadn't realized that Wireless Zero Configuration isn't available in Win98..   I guess WinXP spoiled me

EDIT: I am face with the problem, however, that i cannot connect to my access point while the security is enabled.  I cannot seem to find the interface in Win98 where I can enter a password to utilize my Wireless security. 

  The 2-wire brand gateway, as you know, has a password that you must use if you have WEB enabled. Don't feel bad, even Windows XP has problems with the security feature. You have to have the right drivers to make it work right in either case. I forgot to mention that if anyone runs into the problem where they are performing some type of installation in Win98 and are prompted for the installation disk and you don't have it, you might try directing Windows to C:\Windows\Options\cabs when prompted to select and alternate location for the files.   Apparently it worked for me because I don't have the installation disk and that's what I did.

edit: sorry, not when doing just anykind of installation, only if you are configuring your wireless card, that file path may be used if you don't have the disk.