EPSON 1240 Scanner problems on 8.0

[David Jackson]

I have an Epson Perfection 1240:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010b 
[Perfection1240]) at libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen0.2

It is detected:

ls -l /dev/ugen0.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9 Mar 16 11:37 /dev/ugen0.2 -> usb/0.2.0

ls -l /dev/usb
crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 134 Mar 16 11:37 0.2.0
crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 136 Mar 16 11:37 0.2.1
crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 137 Mar 16 11:37 0.2.2

However i have been having problems getting SANE frontend to detect it:

scanimage -v -v -L
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epson2 to 255.
[epson2] sane_epson2_init: sane-backends 1.0.20
[epson2] sane_epson2_init: reading config file, epson2.conf
[epson2]  usb /dev/ugen0.2
[epson2] attach_one_usb: dev = /dev/ugen0.2
[epson2] epson2 backend, version 1.0.117
[epson2] attach: devname = /dev/ugen0.2, type = 3
[epson2] attach: opening /dev/ugen0.2, type = 3
[epson2] close_scanner: fd = -1
[epson2] sane_epson2_get_devices

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
Calling sane_exit
scanimage: finished

I tried both epson and epson2 drivers by commenting them out in dll.conf.


I am at a loss to know why this is not working. It worked well in 
FreeBSD 7.1

Any help is greatly appreciated