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To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Dont need PAO? 
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:15:56 +1030
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> As a reasonably new user of FreeBSD on my laptop, I thought you *had*
> to use PAO to get the pcmcia cards to work right.  Is this not the case?
> I'd love to get away from it, but I need my cards (ethernet and modem)!

Nope.  Life is just fine without it.

(This is not to be taken as knocking the Nomads, who have done a lot of
 good stuff for the cause...)

mike