Has anyone recently been able to teleoperate the Husky in Fuerte using the directions described here?

When I run sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-clearpath-husky-robot I get E: Unable to locate package ros-fuerte-clearpath-husky-robot even after updating my repositories. So I went with the other suggestion (which was preferred, anyway): using an overlay. After "successfully" installing the overlay with

rosinstall OVERLAY_NAME https://raw.github.com/clearpathrobotics/clearpath_husky/master/husky_fuerte.rosinstall

I connected my laptop to the Husky with a serial->USB connector. I tried to launch the Husky with

roslaunch husky_bringup base.launch port:=/dev/ttyUSB0

And I get an error about the ClearpathRobot.msg not existing. So I figure I need to rosmake the clearpath_common package. Doing so prints out an error about the Joy package not being installed. So I installed the Joy package and tried again. This time it was successful. Now when I try to launch the Husky I get an error saying that the connection on ttyUSB0 cannot be found. I have noted that with dmesg, the converter is indeed attached to ttyUSB0.

And now I'm stuck. Any suggestions? I am running Ubuntu 11.10.

As a side note, I was able to successfully connect to the Husky using Groovy using these directions. However, that wasn't without a weird problem: it would only find the connection on ttyUSB0 when I had another cable plugged into ttyUSB1 as well (ttyUSB0 connected to Husky, ttyUSB1 connected to nothing).