SUSE 10 seemed to be on a roll, and then it choked.
No network. What happened?
According to Novell, the company undergoes a long and extensive testing cycle before including drivers in its enterprise version of SUSE. Even though the Attansic L2 chipset, the one responsible for the on-board LAN controller on the ASUS motherboard wasn't all that new, it hadn't made it through the test phase yet. The spokesperson from Novell said while SLED 10 didn't support Attansic L2 yet, the free version, OpenSUSE, would have no trouble.