Lucid does not self-mount your USB sticks, mice, etc. USB? Here the solution

This is something I've been fighting since Karmic. Yesterday, I discovered how to solve the problem. If it happens to you that Ubuntu does NOT detect mice, keyboards, etc. USB that you connect (unless you reboot with the device connected), here is the solution.

It's so, so simple that I really don't know how these things can get away from Canonical folks, busy with trivial issues like button positions and other eccentricities, instead of solving some more basic and essential things first, like automatic USB detection and "mounting".

You just have to open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit / etc / modules

Once the file is open, you have to add a line that says:

usb_storage

usb hid

It is in these moments of "fury" that I think and feel that Canonical is going the wrong way; and at the same time, I rescue the hard work of the Debian folks, whose distributions are much more stable.

However, I must say that, although I have not been able to verify it for sure, I have all the suspicions that this strange behavior of the USB ports has to do with the use of Ndiswrapper, in my case, to use the XP drivers of my Atheros wifi. This for two reasons, because of what it says in this post and furthermore, because on the machine I didn't install Ndiswrapper on apparently I haven't had this problem.