NIC Card Troubles

Hello all,

I recently purchased a USRobotics 7902A Gigabit Ethernet NIC
(http://www.usr.com/products/networking/networking-product.asp?sku=USR997902A).
USRobotics never mentions what the chipset is but on the driver CD they
have a RealTek 8169 kernel module for Linux so I figure that this must
be the chipset.

Now, I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new computer. I have no
previous experience with FreeBSD (though I do have quite a bit with
Linux) and am looking forward to learning. The card, however, is not
detected by FreeBSD. On boot I get the following message:

pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)

I am using the default GENERIC kernel which, I believe, has the re
driver installed. The man page for the re driver (man 4 re) says that it
supports RealTek 8169 chipsets. Manually adding if_re_load="YES" to
/boot/loader.conf and rebooting prints error messages about re already
being loaded, so I assume that it is already in the kernel. The question
is, then, why is the driver not attaching to the card? Is there
something else I need to do?

Thanks in advance and please rememeber that I don't have NO experience
with FreeBSD and I have tried searching online and looking through the
Handbook.
.

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