Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

[Nick Triantos]

Hi,

I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on Intel's Sonoma 
platform.  This includes the Intel i915 chipset.  I'm looking for 
ethernet (not wireless) drivers for it, the fxp driver reluctantly 
loads, but doesn't recognize that there's a compatible card in my system.

I'm running the stock FreeBSD 5.3 system, cleanly installed.  The 
GENERIC kernel is still what's on there.

I see this:

   root# kldload -v if_fxp
   module_register: module pci/fxp already exists!
   Module pci/fxp failed to register: 17
   module_register: module cardbus/fxp already exists!
   Module cardbus/fxp failed to register: 17
   module_register: module fxp/miibus already exists!
   Module fxp/miibus failed to register: 17
   Loaded if_fxp, id=4

   root# kldstat
   Id Refs Address    Size    Name
     ...
    4    1 0xc1f23000 8000    if_fxp.ko

However, ifconfig does not show an interface to this card (it shows lo0 
and fwe0, which I think is the firewire ethernet driver).

Any clues?  It looks like a fix has been applied to the fxp driver, in 
time for rel 5.3, that should have added alviso chip support.  Maybe I'm 
missing some other core logic driver, I really don't know.

thanks,
-Nick