@zootie:
After months of testing and overwhelming positive feedback, it's clear the drivers I compiled work more than ok for most environments.
Early on, I contacted carlmeek to see if he needed help testing the new drivers, and to see if they met the bounty requirements. Having just gone through considerable upheaval in their environment (which the other versions helped somewhat), he was reticent to introduce these new drivers before they got more mileage from other users and there was more feedback: he had a solution that seemed stable enough. Since then, I've sent other PMs after it became even more clear that the new drivers work much better than all prior solutions, and that Heartbleed and other security patches were integrated into pfSense (requiring updating all pfSense installations), but I've gotten no replies.
I devoted considerable time and resources chasing this bounty (the "fix" seems simple once you figure it out and look backwards, but it is very time and resource intensive to try different things to figure it out). And I've kept trying to integrate the drivers into the 2.1.x ISO build process, with moderate success, so they can be distributed as part of an official release. However, w/o the hope of ever winning the bounty, I can't afford to devote enough time to integrating the drivers into the 2.1.3+ build process in a timely manner (specially given that at this rate, pfSense 2.2 with native hyperv support might be released by then, rendering all my efforts moot).
I haven't had a chance to test it first hand, but it seems that 2.2 is coming along nicely, and that we might see a release sooner than later. Then again, it might take months, and we don't know yet what features and configuration changes might need tweaking between 2.1.x and 2.2.
So, in the mean time, I'll try and keep working on the ISO integration for 2.1.x, if only to give the community options, but if carlmeek comes back, or if there are other commercial users willing to replenish the bounty, it would enable me to devote more time and resources to the 2.1.x driver integration ISO build.
Sounds like a lot of work. I would wait for FREEBSD 10 based release really. Have you been poking around the 2.2 alpha?