for the record, i have a via rhine2 and i never had trouble. (if they are not related i'm sorry to bother you, but it might help debugging)
vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x51: irq 10, address 00:40:63:c9:5c:05 this is the one on the via c3 533Mhz board. alwin [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]