So, what does it take to get the balloon board to communicate over USB?
Since I'm using  SUSE, the commands in the document "Networking a Balloon 
over USB" are different. What makes the network choose the usbnet module 
when it is plugged in?  I see that usbctl reports the board plugged in, and 
my PC shows that USBview tool that the board was plugged in.  I'm actually 
trying to use a document "Connecting the Sharp Zaurus 5500 G on 
GNU/Linux-SUSE-9.0 via USB".
 --Glen