Dell Lat C610 Win install problems (Display and modem detection)

Sorry for double posting (in power mgt) a newbie mistake, that won't happen again.

Hi all,

Newbie here!

I'm caught in a maze of information.

A friend of mine purchased a Dell Lat C610 laptop.
She bought from a government contractor surplus house.
The HD was wiped clean to Gov standards (DOD),
and sold without an operating system.

She was able to obtain a copy of Win98 SE from her brother
until she gets XP.

I installed Win98 SE on a machine designed for win2k at a min.
I got the software installed, but the display is off quite a bit.
I get two choices for the display, 2 colors and 16 colors.
Neither choice suits the proper display on the machine.

For those in the know, 16 colors give you a small screen and when extended,
displays a dull and blurry screen.
The 2 color display gives you the same small screen and a black and white display.

How and or where can I find the proper drivers for this machine?
The Gov. Surplus contractor had no doc's or disks to go with the laptop.
The only other items were a brand spanking new carrying case, the power cord, the module CD-Rom and Floppy disk cartridges.

I know where the downloads and drivers are for Dell, but which ones,
are for the Lat C610 laptop? There seems to be a variety of them.

The current set-up also can't locate the modem either, any tips on finding it,
with Utilities or drivers for that too?

I tried to find the specs that would identify the Mfg of the components,
that way I could get the drivers from them The only specs I found was a page,
that showed how to take a machine apart.

I also tried to search the archives, for previous posts.
All I found were stories about XP setups and searches for drivers.

Sorry for the long post.

Any help would be welcome.

Thanks again