PAO: FreeBSD Mobile Computing Package

PC Card (PCMCIA), APM, etc....

The history about "PAO"

It enables FreeBSD to drive many PCMCIA (PC Card) cards (Ethernet, Wireless LAN, FAX/Modem, ISDN, Digital Cellular, SCSI, Flash ATA, ATA HDD, ATAPI CD-ROM) and provides you PC Card "hotplug" on your laptop machines running FreeBSD. It also contains some improvements and bug fixes for APM BIOS driver.

"PAO" is formerly called "pccard-test". I renamed it because it's not only a package for PC Card now.

"PAO" is based on Andrew McRae's work for PC Cards on FreeBSD, and currently developed and managed by the members of BSD-nomads Mailing List (Japan). If in doubt, please contact the FreeBSD-mobile Mailing List (English) <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> and BSD-nomads Mailing List (Japanese) <bsd-nomads@clave.gr.jp>.

PAO Frequently Asked Question

• PAO3 for 3.x-RELEASE
  • PAO-FAQ (English)
  • PAO-FAQ.jp (Japanese)
• PAO for 2.2.8-RELEASE
  • PAO-FAQ (English)
  • PAO-FAQ.jp (Japanese)

Supported Cards

• PAO3 for 3.x-RELEASE
  • SUPPORTED.CARDS (English) (Japanese)
  • pccard.conf.sample
• PAO for 2.2.8-RELEASE
  • SUPPORTED.CARDS (English) (Japanese)
  • pccard.conf.sample
• List of CIS Tuples

Final version of installation floppy

• 3.5.1-RELEASE boot.flp (Japanese/Korean/English multilingual version, 2000/10/21)
  boot.flp (2.88MB) / kern.flp, mfsroot.flp (1.44MB) / paodist.tar (based on PAO3-20001021.tar.gz) / MD5 Checksums / README
  on ftp://daemon.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-jp/PAO/flp/3.5.1-RELEASE/.

• 2.2.8-RELEASE boot.flp, w/o NFS, PPP and SLIP installation, 1999/04/23
  (Japanese/English bilingual version), (Korean/English bilingual version), (English version, add WIDE-DHCP support, README)
  Note: These boot-pao.flp are based on PAO-19990405.tar.gz, after a boot the floppy, select the Options menu and change the Release Name from 2.2.8-STABLE to 2.2.8-RELEASE.

CVSupping PAO Sources

The latest PAO code can be get from CVSup server. Please access cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org or cvsup6.jp.FreeBSD.org with CVSup. Please edit example supfile in /usr/share/example/cvsup and set the following parameteres.

• CVSupping PAO3 for 3.x-RELEASE:
  • Sample pao3-supfile (latest PAO3)

        *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
        *default base=/somewhere/you/want/to/put
        *default prefix=/somewhere/you/want/to/put
        *default release=cvs tag=.
    
        # collections
        jp-pao3
    

• CVSupping PAO for 2.2.x-RELEASE:
  • Sample pao-supfile (latest PAO for 2.2.8R)

        *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
        *default base=/somewhere/you/want/to/put
        *default prefix=/somewhere/you/want/to/put
        # Note: tag=pao228 is now operational!
        *default release=cvs tag=pao228
    
        # collections
        jp-pao-sys
        jp-pao-kit
    

• All of CVS repositories of the PAO project
• Web browsing in the CVS repository (cvsweb.cgi)