I installed openSuSE 10.2. Install and update and everything goes fine, but as soon as I reboot, my network card is no longer activated. The network device manager lists 2 entries for the same card, one configured and one not. Sometimes if I delete one entry and restart the network services it works, but the changes are lost again on reboot.

I've looked at solutions to similar problems with SuSE 10.2 on different forums but so far nothing seems to have worked.

Can someone shed some light on this?

I'm having the same problem as well. What I have noticed on mine is that it ALWAYS uses dhcp to assign ip address to my card even when I specified a static IP address. Can someone please help

Anybody have any idea about this?

Probably some bug. I got my interface to work this way:
1. Deleted one of the entries
2. Configured the network to use traditional if-up method (just to make sure the card was working)
3. Went to /etc/sysconfig/network and renamed the config file from ifcfg-eth-bus-pci-0000:02:00.0 (it differs from yours!) to ifcfg-eth0
4. Reconfigured the network to use Network Manager.
5. Rebooted (I know!)

And sure enough the card now works with NM. Only that after rebooting, the duplicate entry was back. I didn't touch it since it says not configured, and my network is woking, I'll pretend its not there.

Aside: Another issue I had which was NM related is this:

I use dial-up a lot, And each time I was not connected to the network, Firefox would start in offline mode (Talk about being annoying), and Konqueror/Kmail and any other KDE app that needs to connect to the Internet would just not work, no matter what you do (Talk about being frustrating). I discovered that if I shutdown the Network Manager the KDE Apps will connect using my dialup connection.

Solved the problem, odd fix.

SuSE was trying to use the sk98lin driver. I changed it to 'skge' and everything worked great. Don't have any problems now. Thanks to all that tried to help.