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PAO-970111 (1st anniversary version :-))
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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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 970104:

o Serious bug of original 2.2-BETA floppy driver on non-floppy machine 
  is fixed  (this fix has already been committed to original source)
o added -i (IRQ override) and -s (socket path) option to pccardd
o install floppy support (see PAO webpage for details)

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2.2-BETA	->	Please read ./2.2-BETA/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
About X11 Survey ->	Please read ./doc/X11_SURVEY/README.X11SURV

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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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