Agreed. I suspect that it might have been Asus who originally pushed them to give a Linux 32 bit solution, due to the EEE PC. The 64 bit solution was only put out rather recently.
Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to try it with FreeBSD on my laptop yet. The laptop's wired ethernet card doesn't work, meaning that eventually, I'll have to put it on a CD or USB stick and try it that way. (It's a Broadcom, I've forgotten which, but there are known issues.)
Actually, rather than looking at the outdated ticket 1679, check ticket 1192--all 5007EG issues have been moved there.
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1192