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On Monday 01 April 2013, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
> man miibus
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
> 
> There is no hardware support for that chip and you gotta buy a separate
> PCI-E gigabit ethernet NIC; if you do, be sure to check the actual
> chipset on the card to be supported by FreeBSD. The link above will
> help. Good hunting.

Well. What about alx driver, developed by 
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx? Is 
there any, who have tried to install it?
Also. "No hardware support" meant - "no and never" or "no, but probably"?
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