Can't find where the usb stick is??
 

After reading around, most people's solved their problem by simply looking at the output of dmesg or fdisk -l. After inserting the flash drive the activity light comes on for about 8 seconds. After reading the entire dmesg I cannot find anything that looks like it would be the usb drive. Fdisk -l only lists my 3 hard drives and nothing else. I also tried restarting the Hotplug service. My usb mouse works fine. I'm running kernel 2.4.31 and this is a PNY flash drive. Any ideas? Thanks.

*edit* this just showed up at the end of dmesg.
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-7, assigned address 6
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-71)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-7, assigned address 7
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=7 (error=-71)

Have you got the requisite kernel support enabled? SCSI, USB mass storage, etc?

lsusb is the command to list the usb devices

You'll have to mount the device manually.
First make a mount point.

mkdir /mnt/usb

Then from the command line, something along these lines...

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Post back if this doesn't work.