see recent comments in Bug 41144 for a possible work-around. (It resolved all the hot-plug issues raised here for my wacom graphire USB tablet.)
-- Lack of support for hotplugging and Dapper kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/38336 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
