The onboard NIC on the AV8 is a VIA Velocity V6122 (http://www.vntek.com/en/products/velocity/vt6122.jsp). OpenBSD has a driver for this (vge), but only in -current (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vge&arch=amd64&sektion=4). Eric Wayte