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PAO-971210
PC-card and APM driver package for Nomadic user of FreeBSD

Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Tokyo Japan
BSD-nomads team
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IMPORTANT NOTE:

This version has not been incorporated new PC-card code patches added
to 3.0-CURRENT and 2.2-RELENG last month yet because I must be hurry
to release 2.2.5-RELEASE boot.flp that can drive PC-card driver as
soon as possible.  I'm now planning to merge some features of PAO that
can be considered stable, and incorporate recent changes to -CURRENT
into PAO.

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What's PAO?

PAO is a package that supports moble computing on FreeBSD.  Part of
old PAO packages have been incorporated into original FreeBSD souce
tree, and now also the code in this package is waiting for
integration.  Part of codes in PAO has been less reviewed and it
includes some experimental (pre-alpha level) codes that is not suited
to be incorported into the original source tree at current status, but
PAO is more useful and support more card compared to current FreeBSD
PC-card suppot.

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What's new since 971206:
o Merged Xircom Netwave AirSurfer driver (cnw). 
  (Thanks to Paul Borman at BSDI)
o PCIC_IRQ bug was fixed (it did not work at 971206).
o Updated xpccard (0.1d -> 0.1e)

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2.2.5-RELEASE	->	Please read ./2.2.5-RELEASE/README
PAO-FAQ		->	Please read ./PAO-FAQ
Supported Cards Information
		->	Please read ./SUPPORTED_CARDS
Laptop Survey Information
		->	Please read ./LAPTOP_SURVEY.txt
About Laptop Survey ->	Please read ./doc/LAPTOP_SURVEY/README.LTS

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List of Companies that donated their hardware to our project:
* Sumitomo Shouji Co. donated Yamaha Infoshuttle ISDN card.
* Planet Japan Co. donated PCMCIA Ethernet card Smart COM 3500.

List of Companies that gave us information about their products:
* Contec Co. gave us datasheet of Ethernet card C-NET(PC).
* IBM Japan Co. gave us datasheet of IBM King PCIC Chip.
* Yamaha Co. gave us hardware information about Infoshuttle ISDN 
  card.

I'm thankful to these companies for their help and support to our
project.
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