Hi, all, I'm new to the list, relatively new to Linux and usually ask questions instead of answering them. I did read Chris Wilkinson's posting of 31 January, though, and I suspect I've worked through the same problem with SANE. (If you've got it sussed already just hit Delete now.) I couldn't get SANE to talk to my Epson 2450 USB scanner even though it was definitely recognised by the 'what's my hardware config' program and worked fine in the Win98 environment in my dual boot system. The key lay in the configuration file /etc/sane.d/epson.conf of which the last line was
# usb /dev/usbscanner0 Only one line in the file didn't begin with #. Open your /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file and see if yours is similar. If so, then at the start of any line that doesn't begin with #, put a # . Then REMOVE the # from the line # usb /dev/usbscanner0 and - this is the key - put a forward slash into the word 'usbscanner0' so the line now reads usb /dev/usb/scanner0 (The commenting out the irrelevant lines and uncommenting the relevant one were pretty obvious - the missing forward slash was another story.) I worked this out with some help from the Epson Kowa site http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html - they have a slick program ImageScan! for Linux. Good luck! =====Andrew
