Question of FreeBSD 7.0 support of my ethernet adapter

[dick thompson]

My computer came with the Attansic L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter.  With 
Linux I need distros using a kernel  later than 2.6.22.1.  Does FreeBSD 
7.0 support this ethernet adapter or has a work around come out that 
will work with it?  I know that the older BSD releases did not support 
it but don't know if the new one does or not.  This adapter is the same 
as the Atheros L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter and appears to be widely 
used on the lower level Intel Core 2 Duo computers (mine is the E4400 
chipset).  I would like to use the FreeBSD but I am retired and do not 
want to have to do a lot of changing of what came with this computer for 
economic reasons.

Thanks.

Dick