BPI R4 Lite USB not working

I'm using Openwrt 25.12 rc4, and the USB is not working.
I've tried installing relevant usb-packages mentioned in this guide:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/storage/usb-installing

lsusb gives this error:
unable to initialize libusb: -99

and dmesg gives this:

[    0.936950] phy phy-soc:usb-phy@11c50000.1: type_sw - reg 0x218, index 0
[    2.785778] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    2.791309] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    2.796693] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    7.749845] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    7.756802] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[   11.247886] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[   11.254529] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[   22.304714] platform regulator-usb-5v: deferred probe pending: reg-fixed-voltage: can't get GPIO
[   22.313509] platform 11200000.usb: deferred probe pending: xhci-mtk: Failed to get regulators 

is libusb installed ?

Yes, libusb-1.0.0 is installed.