Thanks again so much for all your work, @krachlatte!
I have tried setting a static IP, as well as using ethtool to set the link speed to both 100 and 1000 full duplex, but no luck. The static IP is applied, but the device is still not able to reach the network.
Running the udevadm command does not appear to generate anything - the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file is still not present afterwards.
Yes, I have the 8GB eMMC version, and this appears to be detected in this build (mmcblk1):