---------------------------------------------------------------------- PAO-971211 PC-card and APM driver package for Nomadic user of FreeBSD Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Tokyo Japan BSD-nomads team ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version is mainly arranged by Hidetoshi Kimura <h-kimura@tokyo.se.fujitsu.co.jp>, Tokyo Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTE: This version is a 2.2.6-RELEASE port of PAO package running on 2.2.5-RELEASE with minimum modification. This version is based on 980317 SNAP of PAO. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What's new since 980317: o ported to 2.2.6. o merged sio.c modifications of -current. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.6-RELEASE -> Please read ./2.2.6-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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- List of Companies that donated software/hardware, etc. to our project: * Sumitomo Shouji Co. donated Yamaha Infoshuttle ISDN card. * Planet Japan Co. donated PCMCIA Ethernet card Smart COM 3500. * Pacific Hitech Inc. donated PC-card 97 specification. 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------