Comment 14 for bug 326891

This sounds like a clear "somewhat". Well, I suspect a bit that this driver working with the cards in question was pure luck somehow. It looks like some things are configured according the the pci id and some things depend on what they call MAC. All of the cards with problems where non-8169 but as the MAC is unknown it is drops through to be the same as for a 8169. One thing this caused was that one register which should not be used on more recent chips got used (and with one of the newer patches did not get initialized). So lets try to go the other way round. I added some patches that should give support for 8101 chipsets, so the "unknown MAC" messages should vanish and hopefully make those cards working correctly.
The kernels are at http://people.ubuntu.com/~smb/bug326891/ again (the v2 versions).