USB stick not recognized since upgrade to 2.6.31-20-generic-pae

[IdleOne]

Binary package hint: nautilus

After upgrading this morning to 2.6.31-20-generic-pae like the update manager suggested my USB stick is no longer recognized.

USB Model: Sandisk Cruzer Micro 8GB

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 6 11:03:35 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic-pae
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic-pae i686

[IdleOne (idleone)]

output of lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

[IdleOne (idleone)]

Problem solved! by installing usb-modeswitch package from repositories.

since the driver is included as a
 Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still
 shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that
 issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching
 of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial".