usbserial and modprobe.conf

[imesg]

I have a Novatel wireless card in my laptop and for it to work the usbserial module needs this:

modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x2120

So to automate this I created /etc/modprobe.d/novatel that contains this:

options usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x2120

Then I ran update-modules:

root@go:/etc/modprobe.d# update-modules --verbose
* You have /etc/modules.d, so things need to get coalesced
* modules.conf: already up-to-date wheatness
* modules.dep: already up-to-date goodness
* modprobe.conf: already up-to-date nutness

And there is no reference to usbserial.

Am I going about this incorrectly?

Thanks,

Gene