This is a virtual machine, isn't it? AFAICS, virtual machines can't do full duplex, while eap(4) cards claim they are full-duplex.
Correct, it's a virtual machine.
Could you add "-mplay" to the sndiod_flags variable in /etc/rc.conf.local (or whatever you use) and see how this works?
that works too, so seems options are either using the "-mplay" flag or disabling sndiod. Thank you all, .jh

