kernel config for networking

[Chuck Robey]

I've been having problems trying to get the onboard networking to work 
with this Asus Striker Extreme ever since I first put FreeBSD-current on 
it.  Right now, I have a cheapy junk-pile card that probes as a dc0 
working, but my motherboard has two nfe's (nfe0 & nfe1) that show up on 
the desmg.  If I use ifconfig and activate them, the whole machine comes 
to a complete halt (complete, neither console nor ssh sessions work, 
machine is dead to the world apparently) and this starts whenever I use 
ifconfig to turn up either nfe0 or nfe1.

I've complained before, but a new possibility occurred to me, while I 
was slowly reading the NOTES in /sys/i386/conf, that the networking 
stuff is very sensitive to order.  Is that still true?  If I have a dc 
device and a nfe device, do I need to be aware of anything as regards 
the config file statement order?

Thanks