I have been trying to install a lacie usb burner on Slackware 9.0

I can see that when the system boots up the usb modules are loaded correctly:

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.3
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc400, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc800, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver


but the system hangs from what dmesg tells me when it is loading cups.

anybody have suggestions?

Cups is for printing. Does this problem persist if: ...you unplug the burner? ...Tell the computer not to load certain modules? ...Get rid of cups?