My Epson scanner has quite a few years on it but it never so much as hiccuped throughout those years while connected to Windows. The Windows is now gone. I am running:
% uname -a NetBSD nebby.localdomain 8.99.35 NetBSD 8.99.35 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Mar 15 22:09:21 UTC 2019 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 Plugging the scanner's USB cable into the box yields this in /var/log/messages: Apr 12 15:59:01 nebby /netbsd: [ 90497.9861323] ugen0 at uhub0 port 7 Apr 12 15:59:01 nebby /netbsd: [ 90497.9861323] ugen0: EPSON (0x4b8) EPSON Scanner (0x122), rev 2.00/1.10, addr 4 I found this site: https://wiki.netbsd.org/scanner/ and followed the link 'SANE:Supported Devices' to this page: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON ...where the following typifies the entries that match 0x122: GT-F570 USB 0x04b8/0x0122 Unsupported supported by the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter epson2 At this point the wiki page gives instructions for configuring and re-making the kernel. Two concerns give me pause: 1. I don't have kernel source for 8.99.35 2. The wiki page bears this legend: "Last edited mid-morning Monday, June 20th, 2011" I can countenance upgrading to a more contemporary instance of -current (and grabbing kernel source!), but I wonder if the state of the SANE drivers, libs, and so on are now such that the kernel hacking might not be needed, not at least at this early stage of the project. Just trying to plan my next move! Thanks all,