Comment 8 for bug 384469

In Ubuntu we don't force floppy.ko either, it just seems to get autoloaded with the normal udev/modalias mechanism. Unfortunately I can't personally help with debugging here, it's been ages since I had my last floppy drive, but I'm happy to relay testing questions to the reporter, or create some test packages for him.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384579 has some udev log and devkit-disks --dump on a computer where a floppy is detected, so that might help.