Okay, a little more headway: I installed the Epson iScan package from http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html
After converting it to a .deb, I installed it with --force-overwrite and it installed. The scanner *still* seems to be resetting every few seconds and getting a new USB device number, which doesn't seem right (from dmesg): [4298121.465000] usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 94 [4298121.633000] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 95 [4298148.215000] usb 5-1: USB disconnect, address 95 [4298148.383000] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 96 scanimage now fails with: scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument when I turn debugging on, I get a ton of detail I can't make heads or tails of <grin>. See it here: http://pastebin.com/435805 . Any suggestions? Thanks! dwh