help with epson scanner and knoppix run from cd

[Laszlo <drills@bluebaysupply.com>]

Hello!

I run knoppix from CD.  It runs on AMD 1 GHz computer with 384KB ram, a Sis 
motherboard, a pci usb 2.0/firewire card.

I'm attempting to get a scanner to work on this system if possible.  I have an 
Epson Perfection 2400 Photo scanner, with USB 2.0 connector.

I followed some posting I found through google a while back, getting the epson 
info here: 

# sane-find-scanner

 <info about no scsi scanner found clipped>

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011b [EPSON Scanner]) at 
libusb:001:004

  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
  #  supported by SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's 
  #  manpage.

  <parallel port scanner not found info clipped>
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This is my saned.conf:
# saned.conf
#
# The contents of the saned.conf  file  is  a  list  of  host  names,  IP
# addresses or IP subnets (CIDR notation) that are permitted to use local
# SANE devices. IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in brackets,  and  should
# always  be specified in their compressed form.
#
# The hostname matching is not case-sensitive.
#
#scan-client.somedomain.firm
#192.168.0.1
192.168.1.0/24
#[2001:7a8:185e::42:12]
#[2001:7a8:185e::42:12]/64
#
# NOTE: /etc/inetd.conf (or /etc/xinetd.conf) and
# /etc/services must also be properly configured to start
# the saned daemon as documented in saned(8), services(4)
# and inetd.conf(4) (or xinetd.conf(5)).

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and my epson.conf: 

# epson.conf
#
# here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend
#
# SCSI scanner:
scsi EPSON
#
# Parallel port scanner:
#pio 0x278
#pio 0x378
#pio 0x3BC
#
# USB scanner:
# There are two different methods of configuring a USB scanner: 
#  libusb and the kernel module For any system with libusb 
#  support (which is pretty much any recent Linux distribution) the
#  following line is sufficient. This however assumes that the 
#  connected scanner (or to be more
#  accurate, it's device ID) is known to the backend.
usb
# For libusb support for unknown scanners use the following command
# usb <product ID> <device ID>
# e.g.:
usb 0x011b 0x04b8
# And for the scanner module, use the following configuration:
#usb /dev/usbscanner0
usb /dev/usb/scanner0
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Note that I tried the fourth line from bottom, above, in reverse also:
usb 0x04b8 0x011b
is what I had originally, but since it didn't work, I took a second look and 
thought I had reversed it by accident, so I changed it to how it now appears 
in the configuration section, with usb 0x011b 0x04b8 order.
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This is what scanimage -L tells me: 

# scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

Running xsane as root says: no devices available.

here's the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file:  

# /etc/sane.d/dll.conf - Configuration file for the SANE dynamic
# backend loader
#
# On Debian systems, the dll backend will also look for pieces
#  of configuration in the /etc/sane.d/dll.d directory -- 
#  packages providing backends should drop
# a config file similar to dll.conf in this directory.
#

#  enable the next line if you want to allow access through 
#  the network:
net
abaton
agfafocus
apple
<snip>
v4l

# The HP OfficeJet backend is not part of the SANE distribution
# but is provided by the hpoj Debian package
hpoj

# The hpaio backend (hplip package) supports HP multifunction
# devices. It is intended as a replacement for hpoj, choose
# whichever works best for you
hpaio
(END)  :

Anything else I need to try, a config file I need to edit, something else?

The scanner works fine under windows.

Laszlo
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