Sadly I will be moving away from SUSE to Mandriva again, same thing I tend to do every 12 months lol.
Unfortunately I cannot get 11.1 network to work.
I replaced the mobo nics with a pci nic to see if it was the drivers or the network sub-system that was faulty. It seems that it is the network system that is at fault.
I have checked everything I can to the best of my abilities and I simply cannot get 11.1 networking to work, so as I have to use my computer for work I have no choice but to move on to another distro that works for me. After checking google for people with similar problems and finding none, I have to accept that this problem is local to me for some weird reason, I even reinstalled 11.1 from scratch because I did not trust the upgrade that I did.
Then I booted with a Mandriva live cd and it worked straight away with full networking.
I tend to switch to Mandriva when SUSE does not work for me and wait for the problem to be solved through patches before I come back again. So I will not be removing it from my system, just putting it into hibernation for a while.
Fingers crossed the networking issue will be resolved soon.