Arduino Yun USB Host Power

I recently bought a Yun and have been attempting to program the board and openwrt such that I can connect a USB webcam (Logitech C270). I have installed the requestite drivers according to a link project from adafruit (Introduction | Wireless Security Camera with the Arduino Yun | Adafruit Learning System). However I get the following:

root@ArduinoYun:~# fswebcam test.png
--- Opening /dev/video0...
stat: No such file or directory
root@ArduinoYun:~#

after using "lsusb". All I get is:

root@ArduinoYun:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6254 Alcor Micro Corp. USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
root@ArduinoYun:~#

Connecting any other USB device to the host port yields the same result (I tried a usb stick). Is there something I am missing? Does the USB port just not work?!?!