my usb drives do not work on netbook Ubuntu 10.4

are you sure nothing happens?

please check lsusb and dmesg and report back
and if have a cdrom try booting from a live ubuntu cd to check your hardware

thanks

I have a cricket Broadband wireless Internet, when I connect the device nothing shows on the computer, I am especting for the computer to mount like a CD rom drive or something but nothing.. Also I have a wireless USB mouse (Targus) I plug the transmitter and once again it does not get recognize. mouse does not work and nothing happens. *** I am a new user with Ubuntu and this is my learning expireance...***

Thank you for your help!

Tony

please do this
open terminal console and write this lsusb enter
report back what that comand reports

here it is:
root@antonio-netbook:/home/antonio# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0b05:1788 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 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 002 Device 002: ID 106c:3b06 Curitel Communications, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13d3:5111 IMC Networks
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I just check the Disk Utility Program and I found the Cricket CD Drive (UM185 CD-ROM) [/DEV/SRO] under the Peripheral Devices.
Drive Information....
Model: UM185 CD-ROM serial Number:0000000000000002
Firmware Version : 2.31 World Wide Name: -
Location: - Device: /dev/sr0
Write Cache: - Rotation Rate: -
Capacity: 48 MB Connection: USB at 12.0 MB/s
Partitioning Not Partitioned SMART Status: Not Supported
Volume: Unknown 48 MB

that is all the information that I have.

Please Help!

please give the output of the command
 dmesg and lspci

i suppose you have both the mouse and modem connected when running this commands

thnaks

Sorry