Hi to all, Epson AL-CX21 controlled by network works pretty well in ubuntu 8.04 LTS but not in 10.04 or 9.10 (libraries changes)
roberto at zorro:~$ scanimage -L device `epson2:net:10.0.0.215' is a Epson AL-CX21 flatbed scanner roberto at zorro:~$ sudo scanimage -d epson2 > pippo [the scanner lamp move] scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O root at zorro:~# wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24388634/libsane_1.0.19-23ubuntu7_i386.deb root at zorro:~# dpkg -i ./Scaricati/libsane_1.0.19-23ubuntu7_i386.deb^C root at zorro:~# scanimage -d epson2 > pippo root at zorro:~# file pippo pippo: Netpbm PBM "rawbits" image data == ubuntu 10.04 == root at zorro:~# cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS \n \l root at zorro:~# dpkg -l | grep sane ii libsane 1.0.20-13ubuntu2 API library for scanners ii sane-utils 1.0.20-13ubuntu2 API library for scanners -- utilities == ubuntu 8.04 == roberto at napoleone:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS \n \l roberto at napoleone:/var/www/scanfax$ dpkg -l | grep scan ii libsane 1.0.19-23ubuntu7 API library for scanners ii mawk 1.3.3-11ubuntu2 a pattern scanning and text processing langu ii sane-utils 1.0.19-1ubuntu3 API library for scanners -- utilities Best regards, -- RAF