Is this the latest and last word on suport (or rather the lack thereof) for the Epson V500?
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2010-January/025872.html If so, this is kind-of depressing, because I'm on FreeBSD, not Linux. Is it really (still) the case that in order to make the V500 work with SANE I have to get some closed-source binary that only runs on Linux? I'm only asking because the guy who maintains the FreeBSD port of the epkowa backend suggested that I try the epson2 backend, because he felt that it was more up-to-date. But for me, neither than nor the epkowa backend seem to work. "sane-find-scanner -q" finds the scanner, but "scanimage -L" does not. (And no, it's not a permissions problem because I get the same result even when I'm root.)