Scanner experiences

[Bob Bernstein <bob%fanatick.org@localhost>]

My Epson scanner has quite a few years on it but it never so much
as hiccuped throughout those years while connected to Windows. The
Windows is now gone. I am running:

% uname -a
NetBSD nebby.localdomain 8.99.35 NetBSD 8.99.35 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Mar
15 22:09:21 UTC 2019
mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

Plugging the scanner's USB cable into the box yields this
in /var/log/messages:

Apr 12 15:59:01 nebby /netbsd: [ 90497.9861323] ugen0 at uhub0 port 7
Apr 12 15:59:01 nebby /netbsd: [ 90497.9861323] ugen0: EPSON (0x4b8)
EPSON Scanner (0x122), rev 2.00/1.10, addr 4

I found this site: https://wiki.netbsd.org/scanner/ and followed the
link 'SANE:Supported Devices' to this page:

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON

...where the following typifies the entries that match 0x122:

GT-F570 USB 0x04b8/0x0122 Unsupported supported by the
   epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter epson2

At this point the wiki page gives instructions for configuring and
re-making the kernel. Two concerns give me pause:

1. I don't have kernel source for 8.99.35

2. The wiki page bears this legend: "Last edited mid-morning Monday,
June 20th, 2011"

I can countenance upgrading to a more contemporary instance of
-current (and grabbing kernel source!), but I wonder if the state of the
SANE drivers, libs, and so on are now such that the kernel hacking
might not be needed, not at least at this early stage of the project. 

Just trying to plan my next move!

Thanks all,


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