Getting an HP 2840 to scan under Mac OS X Mountain Lion

There are few success reports to install the 10.5-driver for the HP Laserjet 2840. One problem is, that OSX removes the kernel extension after installation, because it cannot be installed correctly. Even after manually loading the extension I wasn't able to get the scanner working again. Starting the installer and the setup assistant with administration rights doesn't help either.
Any other tips to get it working? My guess is, that the kernel extension isn't needed anyway, as it contains to code - it probably simply keeps OSX from grabing the USB device of the Laserjet, which isn't required for network operations anyway.
I really wonder, why HP changes the scanning drivers for basically every model. It cannot be too complicated to create one driver which is able to communicate with all HP scanners (given the basic idea, that all scanners simply use the same scanner protocol).
Sadly, VueScan doesn't support the scanner under Mac OS, so there's currently no way to get it working - I was able to scan via USB using the windows drivers under VMWare but that's obviously no alternative :-/.
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Hi,
I've put together a minimal scanner driver by taking the necessary components from the old OSX 10.5 installer (v8.2) and building an installation script/instructions.
Was worth it for me because I have a number of these **bleep** 2840s...
The good news is its compatible with Mac OS X 10.8.3 and the latest printer drivers (v2.14)
You don't even have to re-install the printer software as the scanner software does not conflict
I've uploaded the driver installation script, binaries and instructions to a dropbox
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8719551/HP%20Color%20LaserJet%202840%20Mac%20OS%20X%2010.8%20Mou...
Just download, run the install script, and setup your scanner.
YOU MUST RUN THE INSTALL SCRIPT FROM THE TERMINAL AS PER THE INCLUDED INSTRUCTIONS.

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