Hello, I can imagine several reasons that might cause problems... Though I am only familiar with LINUX, these hints might be helpful for you.
1) Have you properly uninstalled a potential previous installation ? The sane-troubleshoot package will help you to find this out http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/sts/download/sane-troubleshoot-2004-09-02.t ar.gz 2) under Linux, I got SANE work only properly, when I used a special install-prefix by ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info Perhaps, you could try to "make uninstall" your current SANE installation and reinstall it with the other prefix(es) Ullrich