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>> Is my problem indicative of a general driver deficiency in FreeBSD?
>> Is there some module I'm not aware of that, were I to load it, take 
>> care of this mysterious "initialization" ?
> 
> No, this looks like a device specific quirk, like how the 3com 905c will 
> always try and share irq's with my soundcard in my home machine 
> regardless of anything i do yet in other machines it behaves itself :)
> 
> With the sheer amount of hardware and variations on hardware available 
> these things are to be occasionaly expected :)

Drat. A disappointing answer, to be sure.... :-(
A thousand thanks for your explanations, however. :-)

--Damon