Hotplug devices, Firewire and USB, don't react, newbish question

[Dragan Espenschied]

 >> i have a new Warty installation on Intel (did it from an USB cdrom 
drive).
 >> Everything runs fine, but i cannot connect any USB or Firewire device 
at all.
 >>
 >> In Gnome's device manager i can see the tree of USB devices, but no
 >> connected end hardware. If i plug in a mouse it will not even light up.
 >>
 >> Connected should be: USB cdrom (from which the installation worked
 >> flawlessly), HD floppy, HP printer, and a firewire harddisk.

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To answer myself: The new hoary live CD answered all my problems. All
devices show up and work, except the printer. Some future questions i had
were answered as well. It is really excellent.

drx