Remember, it's not simply deprecating cards less than 1Gig. I have a card that is 10/100 only, but works fine with the gigabit alc driver: alc0: <Atheros AR8162 PCIe Fast Ethernet> port 0x2000-0x207f mem 0xe0500000-0xe053ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 cheers, jamie