USB modules are not being loaded

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

My USB printer is not being detected. Upon investigation, I discovered that lsmod | grep usb yields nothing, which I suppose means that USB modules are not being loaded at startup. I am following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection to report this bug...if you need any further info, just let me know!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-6-386 2.6.28-6.20
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-ports
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-6-386 i686