Thanks for the suggestions. You convinced me to dumb the NetworkManager. And now it works perfectly on openSUSE 11.2! I only added a file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 as recommended on this list: # USB configuration for PDAs (openmoko) IPADDR='192.168.0.200/24' NETMASK='255.255.255.0' STARTMODE='auto' PREFIXLEN='24'