OK, after upgrading to the 2.4.21 kernel I am now finally ready to set up SANE to use my scanner. I am using an Epson CX-3200 - a nice print/scan/copy device - which prints perfectly through CUPS..
I'm trying to set up scanner sharing on my LAN bteween Linux boxes running Mandrake 9.0! On the box that has the scanner installed (and working /dev/sg0 !) I've followed the saned man page ...