USB CD Writer and SuSE 7.2

Hi: I have just purchased a Philips CDRW400 USB CD-Writer external unit. I plugged it to my notebook running SuSE 7.2 personal, and issued the command modprobe usb-storage, but it just hung for a couple of minutes and did nothing. Does anybody know how to make Linux recognize one of these so it can be used to burn CD's? Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole alfredo@acyc.com Tegucigalpa, Honduras