diff --git a/local/recipes/system/driver-manager/source/src/config.rs b/local/recipes/system/driver-manager/source/src/config.rs
index 34ebfb4d44..0048aad104 100644
--- a/local/recipes/system/driver-manager/source/src/config.rs
+++ b/local/recipes/system/driver-manager/source/src/config.rs
@@ -117,10 +117,34 @@ impl Clone for DriverConfig {
     }
 }
 
+/// A PCI id field (`device`) that the config may write either as a single id
+/// (`device = 0x8139`) or as a list of ids (`device = [0x8168, 0x8169]`). A
+/// list means "match any of these ids" — an OR alternative — and is the form
+/// the network/graphics driver configs use to scope a vendor+class match to the
+/// specific device ids a driver's register layout supports. Without this, the
+/// list form fails to deserialize (`invalid type: sequence, expected u16`) and
+/// takes the entire file down with it, so driver-manager loads zero drivers
+/// from it (observed: no network drivers, including virtio-netd, get bound).
+#[derive(Deserialize, Clone)]
+#[serde(untagged)]
+enum U16OrList {
+    Scalar(u16),
+    List(Vec<u16>),
+}
+
+impl U16OrList {
+    fn into_vec(self) -> Vec<u16> {
+        match self {
+            U16OrList::Scalar(v) => vec![v],
+            U16OrList::List(v) => v,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[derive(Deserialize)]
 struct RawDriverMatch {
     vendor: Option<u16>,
-    device: Option<u16>,
+    device: Option<U16OrList>,
     class: Option<u8>,
     subclass: Option<u8>,
     prog_if: Option<u8>,
@@ -128,6 +152,40 @@ struct RawDriverMatch {
     subsystem_device: Option<u16>,
 }
 
+impl RawDriverMatch {
+    /// Expand one raw match into one `DriverMatch` per listed `device` id.
+    /// No `device` (or an empty list) yields a single device-less match,
+    /// preserving the previous 1:1 behaviour; a scalar yields one match; a
+    /// list fans out to one match per id, each an independent OR alternative
+    /// carrying the same vendor/class/subclass constraints.
+    fn expand(self) -> Vec<DriverMatch> {
+        let RawDriverMatch {
+            vendor,
+            device,
+            class,
+            subclass,
+            prog_if,
+            subsystem_vendor,
+            subsystem_device,
+        } = self;
+        // All captured fields are Copy, so this closure is reusable (Fn).
+        let mk = |dev: Option<u16>| DriverMatch {
+            vendor,
+            device: dev,
+            class,
+            subclass,
+            prog_if,
+            subsystem_vendor,
+            subsystem_device,
+        };
+        match device.map(U16OrList::into_vec) {
+            None => vec![mk(None)],
+            Some(ids) if ids.is_empty() => vec![mk(None)],
+            Some(ids) => ids.into_iter().map(|id| mk(Some(id))).collect(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use std::collections::HashMap;
@@ -465,6 +523,63 @@ command = ["/usr/bin/redbear-acmd"]
         });
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn new_format_device_list_expands_to_one_match_per_id() {
+        // Reproduces the shipped 10-network.toml rtl8168d block: a vendor+class
+        // match scoped to two device ids via `device = [0x8168, 0x8169]`. Before
+        // the U16OrList fix this failed with `invalid type: sequence, expected
+        // u16` and took the whole file (incl. virtio-netd) down with it.
+        let toml_str = r#"
+            [[driver]]
+            name = "rtl8168d"
+            command = ["/usr/lib/drivers/rtl8168d"]
+
+            [[driver.match]]
+            vendor = 0x10EC
+            class = 2
+            subclass = 0
+            device = [0x8168, 0x8169]
+        "#;
+        let parsed: super::RawDriverToml = toml::from_str(toml_str).expect("parse [[driver]]");
+        let entry = parsed.driver.into_iter().next().unwrap();
+        let matches: Vec<super::DriverMatch> = entry
+            .r#match
+            .into_iter()
+            .flat_map(super::RawDriverMatch::expand)
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(matches.len(), 2, "device list must fan out to one match per id");
+        assert_eq!(matches[0].device, Some(0x8168));
+        assert_eq!(matches[1].device, Some(0x8169));
+        // Shared constraints are carried onto every expanded alternative.
+        for m in &matches {
+            assert_eq!(m.vendor, Some(0x10EC));
+            assert_eq!(m.class, Some(2));
+            assert_eq!(m.subclass, Some(0));
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn new_format_scalar_device_is_single_match() {
+        let toml_str = r#"
+            [[driver]]
+            name = "rtl8139d"
+            command = ["/usr/lib/drivers/rtl8139d"]
+
+            [[driver.match]]
+            vendor = 0x10EC
+            device = 0x8139
+        "#;
+        let parsed: super::RawDriverToml = toml::from_str(toml_str).expect("parse [[driver]]");
+        let entry = parsed.driver.into_iter().next().unwrap();
+        let matches: Vec<super::DriverMatch> = entry
+            .r#match
+            .into_iter()
+            .flat_map(super::RawDriverMatch::expand)
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(matches.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(matches[0].device, Some(0x8139));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn legacy_vendor_plus_device_converts_to_one_match() {
         let toml_str = r#"
@@ -1364,20 +1479,6 @@ pub fn spawn_decision_gate() -> SpawnDecision {
     SpawnDecision::Spawn
 }
 
-impl From<RawDriverMatch> for DriverMatch {
-    fn from(r: RawDriverMatch) -> Self {
-        DriverMatch {
-            vendor: r.vendor,
-            device: r.device,
-            class: r.class,
-            subclass: r.subclass,
-            prog_if: r.prog_if,
-            subsystem_vendor: r.subsystem_vendor,
-            subsystem_device: r.subsystem_device,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 impl DriverConfig {
     /// Load every `.toml` config file in `dir` and return the merged,
     /// priority-sorted list of driver configs.
@@ -1408,7 +1509,7 @@ impl DriverConfig {
                 Ok(parsed) => {
                     for driver in parsed.driver {
                         let matches: Vec<DriverMatch> =
-                            driver.r#match.into_iter().map(DriverMatch::from).collect();
+                            driver.r#match.into_iter().flat_map(RawDriverMatch::expand).collect();
                         let initial_power_state = match &driver.initial_power_state {
                             Some(s) => match PciPowerState::from_toml(s) {
                                 Ok(state) => state,