komputes, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your version of Ubuntu is EOL.
If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a
new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it.
** This bug is no longer a
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 377977 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377977
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
duplicate of bug 377977, so it is being marked as such. Please look
hardy, intrepid, jaunty - clearly no support for this printer.
worse still, there are not even any closed source 64 bit drivers on the
japanese download site.
** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Epson Perfection 3170 Photo Scanner is not recognized by XSane
** Package changed: ubuntu = sane-backends (Ubuntu)
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Epson Perfection 3170 Photo Scanner is not recognized by XSane
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290813
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For what it's worth, I was able to get this scanner to work with Ubuntu
8.10 (intrepid) by following the directions mentioned in the previous
comment (http://ubuntu.flowconsult.at/en/epson-3170-installation/), but
instead of step 4, I created a new file /etc/udev/rules.d/45-local-
scanner.rules
I was having the exact same problem as you. After seeing your bugreport
I went to the /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory and actually found the
45-libsane.rules file but with a .bak extension. I made a copy of the
45-libsane.rules.bak just in case then I renamed the original dropping
the extension. This
