I tried usbview and it only knows about my mouse, but not my scanner.

I tried copying the all the sane config files to a floppy and editing them there. That was sucessful, but I don't know how to tell the system to read the usb configuration from the floppy. I tried stuff like

scanadf --device-name hp:/mnt/floppy/sane.d

but it complained about invalid arguments.

Anyone have any more suggestions???