As I recall there is a display in the lower right corner of one of the tabs which shows the joysticks you have attached to your driver station. (Sorry not in front of the DS right now so I can't tell you which screen exactly). If you do not see them listed there, then it is possible that your USB hub has an issue. I know that they are new in this year's KOP but ours has died already.
We swapped it out for one that I had and it works fine.
Also, goodsky mentions coding up a quick autonomous mode... I believe the default code includes an autonomous function which just drives forward, at least the C++ version does. Are you using LabView, C++, or Java?