Brad du Plessis wrote:
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> The manual says the LAN controller is:
> 
> "Intel 82566DC Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mb/s) Ethernet LAN controller"
> 
> My understanding is that its a PCI-E device.
> Is there any hope of support for this device in the near future?

There's a BSD-licensed driver provided by Intel for FreeBSD here:

   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/README?rev=1.15
   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/

...which supports the 82566 that one could probably port to NetBSD with little 
effort.

-- 
-Chuck