That's funny -- my experience was somewhat similar. My wireless adapter is a WNA-1330 (basically whatever was on sale at officemax or officedepot). NetBSD 4.0 instantly recognized it, and getting WPA set up couldn't have been simpler.
On the other hand, the pcmcia (wired) ethernet adapter that came with the laptop had all kinds of issues. It is a Xircom, which I understand is perhaps not very nice hardware, but
only NetBSD had a problem with it. (FreeBSD, no prob; GNU/Linux, no prob; Windows, no prob...).
The xi(4) manpage BUGS section reads:
Quote:
The Xircom multifunction cards which contain both Ethernet and modem
interfaces are known to have problems. This is due to the card not
reporting itself correctly as a multifunction card.
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I'll say... Anyway, it has been a lot of fun playing around with NetBSD so far.