I installed SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha3 on two computers a HP PentiumIII ebox at the office and my T40 Thinkpad at home.
On both computer my eth0 connection to Internet was KO during the installation connection test (first time!) and on the post install login (first time again!).
If I ran "/etc/initd.d/network restart" after logon I could raise an Internet connection for a few brief instants until the new network connection manager (ifplugd?) took over, it killed the connection.
It's Network-Manager. There are various reports on bugzilla.novell.com.
- does anyone have any ideas on how I get a working DHCP connection
A "rpm -e Network-Manager" did the trick for me. Of course, that's not a solution (Robert Love: sorry), but if you need a functional network ... But: Alpha3 is what the name says: a developement snapshot of the upcoming 10.1. Have an eye on opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/i586/Network-Manager* and bugzilla. Hans-Peter