How to change from DHCP assigned to manual ?

Opensuse 12.3

I changed my network connectivity from Wifi to wired and I want to retain the static I/P address.
It seemed simple enough, go into Manage Connections, select the wired connection and change it from Automatic (DHCP) to manual and assign the manual address,
I/P 192.168.1.211
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1
DNS 192.168.1.1

After the changes, I could not access the internet nor ping the router.

What am I doing wrong ?

Oh yeah, automatic DHCP works just fine.

thanks