LITEON External CD-RW & SuSE

Hi I have a USB LITEONE External CD-RW, which works great on Win.... I tryed once to use it on SuSE 7.3. It seems the system recognized the USB device, but not as a CD device.... I need to plug this CD-RW to a machine running SuSE 8.1. 1. What must be done so the OS recognizes it as a CD unit? 2. what program can I use to burn CD on this External CD-RW? (and any tips for making this work on SuSE 7.3 whould be great!) Thanks -------------------------------------------------------- Juan Francisco Torres Ch.