This issue is RESOLVED.
Just installed FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE...and as I had mentioned, the lines for my network card were present in 7.1 PRE-RELEASE source...so I had a hunch It would work.
7.1 Auto detected my card during install ...and infact I finished the whole install on FTP since the CD drive started giving the nasty READ_BIG error.
So No more Network Card Problems....